Compile OpenMP programs with gcc compiler on OS X Yosemite

Question

$ gcc 12.c -fopenmp
12.c:9:9: fatal error: \'omp.h\' file not found
#include
    ^
1 error generated.

While compiling openMP programs

Answer 1

EDIT: As of 13 Aug 2017 the --without-multilib option is no longer present in Homebrew and should not be used. The standard installation

brew install gcc

will provide a gcc installation that can be used to compile OpenMP programs. As below it will be installed into /usr/local/bin as gcc-<version>. The current gcc version available from Homebrew (as of writing) will install as gcc-8. You can compile programs with OpenMP support using it via

gcc-8 -fopenmp hello.c

Alternatively you could put an alias in your .bashrcfile as

alias gcc='gcc-8'

and then compile using

gcc -fopenmp hello.c

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Note: I'm leaving the original post here in case it is useful to somebody.

The standard gcc available on OS X through XCode and Clang doesn't support OpenMP. To install the Homebrew version of gcc with OpenMP support you need to install it with

brew install gcc --without-multilib

or as pointed out by @Mark Setchell

brew reinstall gcc --without-multilib

This will install it to the /usr/local/bin directory. Homebrew will install it as gcc-<version> so as not to clobber the gcc bundled with XCode.

Answer 2

I finally did some research and I finally came across a solution here: <omp.h> library isn't found in the GCC version (4.2.1) in Mavericks.

1. I got a new gcc complier from http://hpc.sourceforge.net/
2. Then I placed a new executable folder by $ sudo tar -xvf gcc-4.9-bin.tar -C /
3. Later I switched to it by export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH that seemed to do the trick!