Apple

I recently got an M1 mac, and I’ll be cataloging my experience with using it for scientific software development. I’ll be returning to update this page periodically, and will eventually have a focused recommendation for Apple Silicon setup, similar to my Intel setup.

Here is a list of my favorite things to do to properly setup macOS for scientific work. I periodically update it; feel free to leave a comment if something breaks. This should work on macOS 11 on Intel; see my post on Apple Silicon to track progress on a similar setup.

Building OpenMP code is actually possible using Apple Clang that comes default with macOS’s Xcode! Although Apple does not build the OpenMP library, the compiler still supports it. In this post, I demonstrate the procedure necessary to include OpenMP in your build, both with the new support in CMake 3.12, as well as how it would be done without it.