Using OpenMP with clang

Some additional comments:

1) You need to use -fopenmp=libomp to enable OpenMP in clang. -fopenmp just links libgomp but ignores all the pragmas. Weird, I know -- and will be changed in the trunk soon.

2) 3.7 is the first version that supports OpenMP. 3.6 doesn't.

3) clang is only able to work with libomp. Don't put libgomp (headers or the library) in the way of libomp! clang uses Intel API, not supported by libgomp. -fopenmp=libomp should link correct library.

I made it work on Linux Mint 17.2. (essentially Ubuntu 14.04) with:

packages: libiomp-dev clang-3.8

Compile flag: -fopenmp

Linker flag: -fopenmp=libiomp5

Now it compiles and uses multiple threads.

Here is the modified FindOpenMP.cmake

Update

Building the latest trunk of LLVM/Clang (clang-3.8), installing libiomp5, and specifying the location of the gomp omp header files worked. Note that the Ubuntu package for libiomp5 isn't quite correct, so you will need to add a symlink in /usr/lib from /usr/lib/libiomp5.so to /usr/lib/libiomp5.so.5.

./clang++ -I/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/4.9/include -fopenmp=libiomp5 -o test test.cpp

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I'm using g++-5.1 and clang++-3.6 on Linux Mint 17.2 (essentially Ubuntu trusty) and I see the same results with the following code.

#include <iostream>
#include <omp.h>
int main() {
    #pragma omp parallel num_threads(4)
    {
        #pragma omp critical
        std::cout << "tid = " << omp_get_thread_num() << std::endl;
    }
}

Running this under ltrace reveals the issue:

g++

$ g++ -fopenmp -o test test.cpp
$ ./test
tid = 0
tid = 3
tid = 2
tid = 1
$ ltrace ./test
__libc_start_main(0x400af6, 1, 0x7ffc937b8198, 0x400bc0 <unfinished ...>
_ZNSt8ios_base4InitC1Ev(0x6021b1, 0xffff, 0x7ffc937b81a8, 5)   = 0
__cxa_atexit(0x4009f0, 0x6021b1, 0x602090, 0x7ffc937b7f70)     = 0
GOMP_parallel(0x400b6d, 0, 4, 0 <unfinished ...>
GOMP_critical_start(0, 128, 0, 0)                              = 0
tid = 3
tid = 2
omp_get_thread_num(0x7f9fe13894a8, 1, 0, 0x493e0)              = 0
_ZStlsISt11char_traitsIcEERSt13basic_ostreamIcT_ES5_PKc(0x6020a0, 0x400c44, 0, 0x493e0) = 0x6020a0
_ZNSolsEi(0x6020a0, 0, 0x7f9fe1a03988, 0x203d2064)             = 0x6020a0
_ZNSolsEPFRSoS_E(0x6020a0, 0x400920, 0x7f9fe1a03988, 0 <unfinished ...>
_ZSt4endlIcSt11char_traitsIcEERSt13basic_ostreamIT_T0_ES6_(0x6020a0, 0x400920, 0x7f9fe1a03988, 0) = 0x6020a0
<... _ZNSolsEPFRSoS_E resumed> )                               = 0x6020a0
GOMP_critical_end(0x7f9fe0d2d400, 0x7f9fe0d2e9e0, 0, -1)       = 0
tid = 1
tid = 0
<... GOMP_parallel resumed> )                                  = 0
_ZNSt8ios_base4InitD1Ev(0x6021b1, 0, 224, 0x7f9fe0d2df50)      = 0x7f9fe1a08940
+++ exited (status 0) +++

clang

$ clang++ -fopenmp -o test test.cpp
$ ./test
tid = 0
$ ltrace ./test
__libc_start_main(0x4009a0, 1, 0x7ffde4782538, 0x400a00 <unfinished ...>
_ZNSt8ios_base4InitC1Ev(0x6013f4, 0x7ffde4782538, 0x7ffde4782548, 5) = 0
__cxa_atexit(0x400830, 0x6013f4, 0x6012c8, 0x7ffde4782310)     = 0
_ZStlsISt11char_traitsIcEERSt13basic_ostreamIcT_ES5_PKc(0x6012e0, 0x400a84, 0x7ffde4782548, 6) = 0x6012e0
omp_get_thread_num(0x7f3e4698c006, 0x7f3e4698c000, 0x7f3e46764988, 1024) = 0
_ZNSolsEi(0x6012e0, 0, 0x7f3e46764988, 1024)                   = 0x6012e0
_ZNSolsEPFRSoS_E(0x6012e0, 0x4007a0, 0x7f3e46764988, 0 <unfinished ...>
_ZSt4endlIcSt11char_traitsIcEERSt13basic_ostreamIT_T0_ES6_(0x6012e0, 0x4007a0, 0x7f3e46764988, 0) = 0x6012e0
tid = 0
<... _ZNSolsEPFRSoS_E resumed> )                               = 0x6012e0
_ZNSt8ios_base4InitD1Ev(0x6013f4, 0, 224, 0x7f3e45886f50)      = 0x7f3e46769940
+++ exited (status 0) +++

You can immediately see the problem: clang++ never calls GOMP_parallel, so you always get one thread. This is crazy behavior on the part of clang. Have you tried building and using the "special" OpenMP version of clang?