[R-SIG-Mac] procedure to ship libomp.dylib run-time with package

[Balamuta, James]

Tim,

Unfortunately, there isn't a nice way of including OpenMP for macOS within a package.  One potential avenue would be to use a `configure.ac` file to check for whether OpenMP headers are present on the macOS computer and, then, allow the correct OpenMP compilation flags to be set. However, this requires the user to compile from source instead of using a CRAN binary.

Unfortunately, there isn't going to be an easier way as OpenMP on macOS with R is experimental by nature.

Best regards,

James
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Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] procedure to ship libomp.dylib run-time with package

Thanks Kasper,
I read those lines and had installed the openmp software as instructed. It all works fine for me. But users don’t have my usr/ folder, not can a package write to their usr/ folder.

so what is confusing is how the user will get this lib. Where should make place libraries like libomp within the package so that if a user merely install.packages() it, the library will be found and loaded?
Best, tim


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Subject: Re: [R-SIG-Mac] procedure to ship libomp.dylib run-time with package

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If you read the next couple of sentences on that page, it says

The following are links to libomp OpenMP run-time built from official LLVM release sources using Xcode compilers. They are signed and support macOS 10.13 (High Sierra) and higher. All tar-balls contain the system tree usr/local/lib and usr/local/include so the recommended installation is to type in Terminal:

    curl -O https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://mac.r-project.org/openmp/openmp-14.0.6-darwin20-Release.tar.gz__;!!DZ3fjg!_OUXHENJ_6aGlU-humThmTaUR5okhDKW2EGEY49AjJ4AN8eXBWtZCWE3O01pnyxbRpGQDhCl8MMLThVBbWfUKf7B$
    sudo tar fvxz openmp-14.0.6-darwin20-Release.tar.gz -C /


I think that is pretty clear? Note the -C / as part of the last line, that tells tar where to put it on the system.

On Tue, Jun 25, 2024 at 8:20 AM Sparapani, Rodney via R-SIG-Mac <r-sig-mac using r-project.org<mailto:r-sig-mac using r-project.org>> wrote:
Hi Tim:

/usr/local/lib it seems.  See the following page
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"any package you compile against libomp.dylib will need that run-time so you have to ship it with your package or have users install it”

Are there  any  instructions on what to do/where to put libomp.dylib so it will be found?

I’ve compiled a package (OpenMx) in which OpenMP is working locally but other users get the error:

require(OpenMx)
Error: package or namespace load failed for ‘OpenMx’ in dyn.load(file, DLLpath = DLLpath, ...):
 unable to load shared object '/Users/***/Library/R/x86_64/4.4/library/OpenMx/libs/OpenMx.so':

dlopen(/Users/***/Library/R/x86_64/4.4/library/OpenMx/libs/OpenMx.so, 0x0006): Library not loaded: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.3-x86_64/Resources/lib/libomp.dylib


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