[ADOL-C] ADOL-c on Mac OS X Mavericks

[Max Sagebaum]

Hello @ all,

I tested if ADOL-c works on Mac OS X Mavericks with the clang compiler shipped by Apple and the gcc-4.7 compiler from MacPorts.

With the gcc-4.7 compiler from Macports I had no problem. The configuration was:

Normal: ./configure --enable-docexa --enable-addexa
OpenMP: ./configure --enable-docexa --enable-addexa —with-openmp-flag=-fopenmp

But the “--enable-docexa --enable-addexa” flags are only there to build the examples. You can get the MacPorts gcc by Downloading MacPorts from http://www.macports.org/install.php

In your terminal you can the install gcc with
> sudo port install gcc47
I also recommend to get the old apple gdb debugger
> sudo port install gdb-apple

If you want to set the gcc47 as the default compiler you can run
> sudo port select --set gcc mp-gcc47

With the clang compiler from Apple there are some minor problems which I communicated to the ADOL-c team.  But they will be fixed in the near future.

The configuration is nearly the same:
Normal: ./configure --enable-docexa --enable-addexa CXXFLAGS=“-O2 -std=c++11”

Currently the C++11 standard needs to be used in order to reduce the number of warnings the clang compiler generates. If this is still needed after the updates to ADOL-c I can not say.
There is no OpenMP configuration as the apple clang compiler currently does not support OpenMP.

I also tested with both version the colpack support and there were no problems with gcc and some minor problems with clang. They will also be fixed.
Please keep in mind that colpack should be compiled with the same compiler which is used for ADOL-c. Otherwise you can get some strange linking behavior.

Cheers

Max