MacOS compile from Mavericks Lion compatible executable - c

Since I updated to Mavericks my C app, compiled in my machine with clang, cannot be executed in Lion machines (yep, there are some people who have not updated). It throws
Segmentation fault: 11 error
I've read about stdlib option in this thread but it seems it only applies to clang++ and not to plain clang. Is there a similar option for clang? I've searched for --stdlib=libstdc in google but all results are for --stdlib=libstdc++

To compile an app for OS X 10.8 (Lion), you have to set the "Deployment Target".
The corresponding command line option for clang is
-mmacosx-version-min=10.8
You might also want to set the SDK to 10.8, to avoid that any library functions are used that are available only in 10.9:
-isysroot /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.8.sdk

I'm not sure the intent of the question, but Lion is actually 10.7, Mountain Lion is 10.8. Obviously, you wouldn't want to set the deployment target to 10.8, if you were targeting Lion (10.7). Both the previous comments and answer are conflicting in that regard.
*Note: I can't comment on them, as I don't have enough rep!

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clang does not generate gdb symbols on windows [duplicate]

When using clang v8.0.0 on Windows (from llvm prebuilt binaries) with -g or -gline-tables-only source map tables are not being picked up by gdb or lldb debuggers.
Upon including -g flag file grows in size (which is to be expected) yet neither gdb nor lldb pickes the source up
When compiled with gcc though (with -g flag) source files are detected by debugger.
I have tried running the same command (clang -g <codefile>) on macOS High Sierra (clang -v says it is Apple LLVM version 10.0.0 (clang-1000/10.44.4)) where there source files are being picked up by lldb. So I guessed it is localized to my windows instance or llvm for windows build.
P.S. output of clang -v on windows:
clang version 8.0.0 (tags/RELEASE_800/final)
Target: x86_64-pc-windows-msvc
Thread model: posix
InstalledDir: C:\Program Files\LLVM\bin
On Windows, Clang is not self-sufficient (at least not the official binaries). You need to have either GCC or MSVC installed for it to function.
As Target: x86_64-pc-windows-msvc indicates, by default your Clang is operating in some kind of MSVC-compatible mode. From what I gathered, it means using the standard library and other libraries provided by your MSVC installation, and presumably generating debug info in some MSVC-specific format.
Add --target=x86_64-w64-windows-gnu to build in GCC-compatible mode. (If you're building for 32 bits rather than 64, replace x86_64 with i686). This will make Clang use headers & libraries provided by your GCC installation, and debug info should be generated in a GCC-compatible way. I'm able to debug resulting binaries with MSYS2's GDB (and that's also where my GCC installation comes from).
If you only have GCC installed and not MSVC, you still must use this flag.
How do I know this is the right --target? This is what MSYS2's Clang uses, and I assume they know what they're doing. If you don't want to type this flag every time, you can replace the official Clang with MSYS2's one, but I'm not sure if it's the best idea.
(I think they used to provide some patches to increase compatibility with MinGW, but now the official binaries work equally well, except for the need to specify the target. Also, last time I checked their binary distribution was several GB larger, due to their inability to get dynamic linking to work. Also some of the versions they provided were prone to crashing. All those problems come from them building their Clang with MinGW, which Clang doesn't seem to support very well out of the box. In their defence, they're actively maintaining their distribution, and I think they even ship libc++ for Windows, which the official distribution doesn't do.)

How can I install intel Cilk for C/C++ parallel programming on windows 10?

I would like to experiment with intel's Cilk extension for C/C++ parallel programming but I am having a hard time figuring out how to install it on Windows. I tried consulting the official site but I couldn't find any Windows oriented guide. Switching to Linux is not convenient right now and I would prefer to leave it as a last resort.
I also tried to get a free trial version of Parallel Studio, but apparently it does not support CILK anymore.
If someone could guide me step-by-step, I would be very grateful.
I use Code Blocks, which includes the gnu gcc compiler.
(To start with, excuse me, I've never used Cilk personally).
First of all, it's deprecated:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cilk#Obsolescence
https://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/intel-cilk-plus/topic/745556
If you want to try it with GCC, you need to get GCC (perhaps, versions from 4.9 to 8.0; support deprecated in 7.1 and removed in 8.1) compiled with Cilk support.
And then it should work in a very simple way, e.g.:
$ gcc -fcilkplus -lcilkrts <OTHER_FLAGS> mycode1.c
$ g++ -fcilkplus -lcilkrts <OTHER_FLAGS> mycode2.cpp
(I've tried to add these flags when compiling a non-Cilk C source on my Debian 9 GNU/Linux (amd64) system, and it seems to work; libcilkrts5 package seems to get installed there along with GCC 6.3.0, by default).
Here is a list of popular binary GCC builds:
https://gcc.gnu.org/install/binaries.html
Unfortunately, most GCC binaries for MS Windows I can find come without Cilk enabled;
e.g., I didn't find it in the following packages:
http://codeblocks.org/downloads/binaries
https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/files/Toolchains%20targetting%20Win32/Personal%20Builds/mingw-builds/
At least, it can be found in Cygwin (it has gcc-cilkplus & libcilkrts5 in its package list):
https://cygwin.com/packages/package_list.html
Alternatively, you can probably try Intel C++ Compiler (no experience with that, sorry).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cilk#Intel_Cilk_Plus
https://www.cilkplus.org/build-gcc-cilkplus
Cilk is alive and kicking at MIT as OpenCilk
You can either build it or even download a binary, but only linux, Mac or source is offered

OpenMP support on OSX 10.11, gcc errors with "file omp.h not found"

I have been using gcc version 5.3.0. It says that it comes with openmp support. But every time when I compile a program using either gcc [by terminal] or via xCode 7, I get same error, "file omp.h not found". I have searched too much on this issue and tried almost everything I found.
First I tried to locate omp.h on my mac. I found some files; then in header file, I used that specific location of omp.h but no help [it gave me linker error].
I installed gcc version 6.0 (pre-release) but no help. I tried changing C_INCLUDE_PATH [which is now, and previously set to none] but that didn't helped me as well.
I reinstalled clang-omp but no help.
I am using llvm compiler version 7.0. Although i have installed clang-omp, there is no omp.h in my /usr/include/*
I changed the compiler and now I am able to run it. [It was issue of clang, which I couldn't solve].
I am a student and Intel is giving Intel Parallel Studio 1 year licence for free to students.
So I downloaded, and installed it.
In xCode, under build settings, I set my compiler to 'Intel C/C++ compiler' and in parallalization, I turned it to 'yes'. That was it. Then it compiled successfully. But, note that you won't be using header file 'omp.h' anymore.
By the way, I am still looking for answers, just to know what I was doing wrong.
You can install 'clang-omp' or 'gcc' (corresponds to GCC 5.3 right now) packages via Homebrew, both of which support OpenMP.
The built in GCC is based upon GCC 4.2.1 abs uses LLVM back end via Dragonegg, which is why it doesn't support OpenMP.
As noted already, Intel compilers support OpenMP on Mac.
I don't use Xcode editor so I don't know how to use any of these from there, but all will work from terminal just as they do on Linux.
the compiler on the mac is clang (based on llvm 3.5) which does not support openmp.
you can try install llvm/clang/openmp from source or using prebuild binaries, but I must admit it does not work as advertised for me…
edit unless you use the -fopenmp=libomp flag.

How can I mimic the GNU/linux C development environment on OSX Lion?

I just tried to write a simple C program on OSX Lion
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
printf("hello world\n");
return 0;
}
Compiling with gcc
$ gcc hello.c
test.c:1:19: error: stdio.h: No such file or directory
test.c: In function ‘main’:
test.c:3: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function ‘printf’
Ok...fine
$ gcc -I /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk/usr/include
ld: library not found for -lcrt1.10.6.o
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
What? Let's see...
$ gcc -I /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk/usr/include -L/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.6.sdk/usr/lib test.c
$ ./a.out
hello world
Finally!
That seems like a lot of effort just to get a hello world working, how do I make gcc find libraries and header files in the MacOSX10.6.sdk directory by default like it does on linux? On linux I find ldd and ldconfig quite useful, they don't seem to exist on OSX...is there an equivalent? What other useful tools are there for developing C on OSX?
Yes, I know xcode makes this easier, but suppose I wanted to use vim and the command line to work on an opensource c project.
I can think of three possibilities:
You had 10.6 installed and upgraded to 10.7. You need to install the new version of Xcode (4.1, get it from the app store) to get back the developer tools.
you installed Xcode, did a custom install, and unchecked "UNIX development" or something. Rerun the installer and install the missing parts.
You installed a broken third-party version of gcc. Try which gcc and see what you get.
On OS X 10.7, if you have downloaded Xcode 4.1 from the Mac App Store and then run the installer that it downloads (in /Applications), your first attempt should have worked just fine assuming you have not set some environment variables that are looked at and influence Apple's gcc tool chain. The object file that is produced in this case would be using the default 10.7 ABI (include files and libs). If you want to produce something that would be compatible with OS X 10.6, then you need to tell the tool chain to use the 10.6 SDK ABI, which is what you did in the third attempt. A standalone project typically handles this by setting up a Makefile to automate building. But, unless you are trying to build something on a version of OS X (10.7 here) that will also run on earlier versions of OS X (say 10.6), there is generally no need to use an SDK.

Creating app for old mac from new mac machine?

I am writing an sample app on MAC OSX 10.6 having gcc version 4.2.
I am compiling app using gcc version 4.2 .
It is working fine on the same machine but on MAC OSX 10.5 (gcc 4.0) it is not working.
how can I compile it on 10.6 so it will also work on old machine ?
I am getting these error
dyld: unknown required load command 0x80000022
Trace/BPT trap
command I used to build is
gcc -m32 main.cc
The application was incorrectly built on OS X 10.6 machine for a 10.5 machine. The developer can fix this by considering three things:
Using the correct compiler parameters:
gcc-4.2 -mmacosx-version-min=10.5 -isysroot /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk ...
Using the correct linker settings (setting environment variable before link command). This is required, so that the OS X 10.6 linker will not use the loader command 'LC_DYLD_INFO_ONLY' (=0x80000022), because OS X 10.5 does not understand this command:
export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.5
(or setenv MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.5)
After this is fixed, one can check if the application was correctly built for OS X 10.5 by running 'otool':
otool -l binary
The correct binary should not contain any 'LC_DYLD_INFO_ONLY' load commands (only 'LC_DYLD_INFO' commands).
(also see my blog article http://grauonline.de/wordpress/?p=71 )
-arch i386 -Wl,-macosx_version_min,10.5 will help; I don't know for certain if they'll be sufficient, though.

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