Need help installing IPOPT in MacOS

[Girdled-Armadilo]

I'm in serious trouble with installing Ipopt in MacOS Ventura 13.4.1.

I've already looked for help in here.

But I still couldn't find a solution.

I did ./configure as instructed in Ipopt Installation Instruction and tried compiling via:

sudo make

Then following error occurred:

...
  CXXLD libipopt.la
clang: error: unsupported option '-fopenmp'
make[3]: *** [libipopt.la] Error 1
make[2]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 
make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1

How can we solve this? Please help me....

Following is the output of configure and config.log

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configure: libtool version info: -version-number 3:14:13
configure: Assuming that CXXLIBS is -lc++.
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configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile
config.status: creating src/ipopt.pc
config.status: creating src/Makefile
config.status: creating src/Apps/AmplSolver/Makefile
config.status: creating src/Apps/AmplSolver/ipoptamplinterface.pc
config.status: creating test/Makefile
config.status: creating test/run_unitTests
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config.status: creating examples/Cpp_example/Makefile
config.status: creating examples/recursive_nlp/Makefile
config.status: creating examples/hs071_cpp/Makefile
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config.status: creating examples/ScalableProblems/Makefile
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config.status: creating examples/hs071_java/Makefile
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config.status: creating contrib/sIPOPT/Makefile
config.status: creating contrib/sIPOPT/src/Makefile
config.status: creating contrib/sIPOPT/AmplSolver/Makefile
config.status: creating contrib/sIPOPT/examples/parametric_cpp/Makefile
config.status: creating contrib/sIPOPT/examples/parametric_dsdp_cpp/Makefile
config.status: creating contrib/sIPOPT/examples/redhess_cpp/Makefile
config.status: creating contrib/RInterface/src/Makevars
config.status: creating src/Common/config.h
config.status: creating src/Common/config_ipopt.h
config.status: linking examples/hs071_cpp/hs071_main.cpp to test/hs071_main.cpp
config.status: linking examples/hs071_cpp/hs071_nlp.cpp to test/hs071_nlp.cpp
config.status: linking examples/hs071_cpp/hs071_nlp.hpp to test/hs071_nlp.hpp
config.status: linking examples/hs071_c/hs071_c.c to test/hs071_c.c
config.status: linking contrib/sIPOPT/examples/parametric_cpp/parametric_driver.cpp to test/parametric_driver.cpp
config.status: linking contrib/sIPOPT/examples/parametric_cpp/parametricTNLP.cpp to test/parametricTNLP.cpp

config.status: linking contrib/sIPOPT/examples/redhess_cpp/MySensTNLP.cpp to test/MySensTNLP.cpp
config.status: linking contrib/sIPOPT/examples/redhess_cpp/redhess_cpp.cpp to test/redhess_cpp.cpp
config.status: executing depfiles commands
config.status: executing libtool commands
configure: Configuration of Ipopt successful

config.log

[tkralphs]

I just built Ipopt on MacOS 13.2.1 and it worked out of the box with configure && make. If you attach the full output of configure and the resulting config.log, I can try to help.

Indeed, clang does not support OpenMP. Apple has an annoying habit of creating a wrapper around clang that they call gcc in order to prevent build systems that have gcc hard-coded from failing (I guess). The configure script may get confused and think it's talking to gcc, which supports OpenMP and uses the -fopenmp flag, when it's really talking to clang. So I would guess your problem will be fixed if you do configure CC=clang CXX=clang++. But it's not clear how that -fopenmp is getting there in the first place, since Ipopt's configure would never add that flag as far as I can see. I would guess that you are doing something non-standard somewhere along the way.

[Girdled-Armadilo]

Thank you for your reply. I will do as you advise. I also attached the output of configure and the config.log file to the question.....

[Girdled-Armadilo]

I followed your advice and ran the following in $IPOPTDIR/build directory

sudo ../configure CC=clang CXX=clang++ LDFLAGS="-Wl,-no_compact_unwind"

I add LDFLAGS="-Wl,-no_compact_unwind" flag to solve ld: warning: could not create compact unwind for __emutls_get_address: registers 23 and 24 not saved contiguously in frame

The "-fopenmp" error didn't happen, but now I'm getting the following error when I ran sudo make

Making all in src
/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/make  all-recursive
Making all in .
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
Making all in Apps/AmplSolver
make[3]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
Making all in contrib/sIPOPT
Making all in src
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
Making all in AmplSolver
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.

[svigerske]

What is the error? Looks like everything has been build.

[Girdled-Armadilo]

I didn't realize that it had been built XD Thank you so much for your answering...!!!

[svigerske]

As someone replied on stackoverflow, the flag for using OpenMP would be -Xclang -fopenmp for clang(++) now. I suppose the -fopenmp comes in from the build of HSL or Mumps here, which you may have built with gfortran, which uses -fopenmp. (As said by Ted, if you were to include all information on how to get to the error you see, we wouldn't have to guess around here.)

You could configure everything with --disable-openmp to just avoid getting -fopenmp. Or you could switch to GCC for C/C++ code as well. In that case, specify variables CC and CXX to point to the full path of your gcc/g++ installation. Further, setting CPPFLAGS and maybe LDFLAGS as suggested in the stackoverflow answer could work.

[Girdled-Armadilo]

Thank you for your reply. I attach the output of configure and the config.log file to the question. And I'll put your advise...