cant find_package(Ceres REQUIRED) on macos !!!

[chennuo0125-HIT]

macos version: Sonoma 14.2.1
problem:
I make install ceres-solver 2.1.0 from source, and find_package(Ceres REQUIRED) in cmakelist demo, and I got follow problem:

CMake Error at /opt/homebrew/Cellar/cmake/3.28.1/share/cmake/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:230 (message):
  Could NOT find OpenMP_C (missing: OpenMP_C_FLAGS OpenMP_C_LIB_NAMES)
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  /opt/homebrew/Cellar/cmake/3.28.1/share/cmake/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:600 (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE)
  /opt/homebrew/Cellar/cmake/3.28.1/share/cmake/Modules/FindOpenMP.cmake:580 (find_package_handle_standard_args)
  /opt/homebrew/Cellar/cmake/3.28.1/share/cmake/Modules/CMakeFindDependencyMacro.cmake:76 (find_package)
  /opt/homebrew/lib/cmake/SuiteSparse_config/SuiteSparse_configConfig.cmake:68 (find_dependency)
  /opt/homebrew/Cellar/cmake/3.28.1/share/cmake/Modules/CMakeFindDependencyMacro.cmake:76 (find_package)
  /opt/homebrew/lib/cmake/CXSparse/CXSparseConfig.cmake:78 (find_dependency)
  /opt/homebrew/Cellar/cmake/3.28.1/share/cmake/Modules/CMakeFindDependencyMacro.cmake:76 (find_package)
  /usr/local/lib/cmake/Ceres/CeresConfig.cmake:182 (find_dependency)
  CMakeLists.txt:124 (find_package)

but if I install ceres-solver 2.2.0 , and the result is ok.

why does this problem happen ?

[chennuo0125-HIT]

@sandwichmaker could you tell me why above problem occured ?

[Sergiu Deitsch]

The error stems from your Homebrew version of SuiteSparse not from Ceres:

/opt/homebrew/lib/cmake/SuiteSparse_config/SuiteSparse_configConfig.cmake:68 (find_dependency)

For some reason, the OpenMP C component is not usable. You could check the CMake configure log to identify the issue.

[chennuo0125-HIT]

@sergiud if not ceres proplem, why can i replace ceres version solve the problem ?

[chennuo0125-HIT]

@sergiud ceres 2.1.0 is ok, but ceres 2.2.0 not ok

[chennuo0125-HIT]

Three people around me have all experienced this problem，we just run "brew update" and the problem occurred, my home brew version: Homebrew 4.0.23-12-ge986264

[Sergiu Deitsch]

While Ceres 2.1.0 supported OpenMP as one of the threading backends, Ceres 2.2.0 removed OpenMP support in 06bfe6f. This is likely the reason why the issue no longer occurs in Ceres 2.2.0. However, even in 2.1.0 Ceres did nothing special here:

ceres-solver/cmake/CeresThreadingModels.cmake

Line 55 in f68321e

 find_package(OpenMP REQUIRED) 

Therefore, I suggest reporting the issue to Homebrew or SuiteSparse maintainers. There seems to be a conflict in the way OpenMP components are requested and used. Relying on a language specific version of OpenMP in the dependency chain can generally cause problems, e.g., if a CMake project that enables the use of a CXX compiler only also depends on a component requiring a C compiler (and vice versa).

[chennuo0125-HIT]

@sergiud how can i remove OpenMP support in ceres 2.1.0 ?

[Sergiu Deitsch]

You could try explicitly setting the CERES_THREADING_MODEL CMake variable, e.g., to CXX_THREADS to avoid Ceres invoking the above find_package call. Alternatively, you can unconditionally set the threading backend to CXX_THREADS here:

ceres-solver/cmake/CeresThreadingModels.cmake

Lines 65 to 82 in f68321e

 macro(set_ceres_threading_model CERES_THREADING_MODEL_TO_SET) 
   if ("${CERES_THREADING_MODEL_TO_SET}" STREQUAL "CXX_THREADS") 
     set_ceres_threading_model_to_cxx11_threads() 
   elseif ("${CERES_THREADING_MODEL_TO_SET}" STREQUAL "OPENMP") 
     set_ceres_threading_model_to_openmp() 
   elseif ("${CERES_THREADING_MODEL_TO_SET}" STREQUAL "NO_THREADS") 
     set_ceres_threading_model_to_no_threads() 
   else() 
     include(PrettyPrintCMakeList) 
     find_available_ceres_threading_models(_AVAILABLE_THREADING_MODELS) 
     pretty_print_cmake_list( 
       _AVAILABLE_THREADING_MODELS ${_AVAILABLE_THREADING_MODELS}) 
     message(FATAL_ERROR "Unknown threading model specified: " 
       "'${CERES_THREADING_MODEL_TO_SET}'. Available threading models for " 
       "this platform are: ${_AVAILABLE_THREADING_MODELS}") 
   endif() 
   message("-- Using Ceres threading model: ${CERES_THREADING_MODEL_TO_SET}") 
 endmacro()