Issue related to the installation of OpenMC+NCrystal

[XuShuqi7]

Hi everyone,

my name is Shuqi Xu. I currently work for the HighNESS project to investigate the neutron slowdown by magnetic effects.

After installing the latest NCrystal version (3.0.0) and sourcing the setup.sh file, I would like to install OpenMC coupling with NCrystal in my personal laptop via https://github.com/highness-eu/openmc, but I fail. The details are shown as follows:

xushuqi@xushuqideMacBook-Pro openmc % mkdir build && cd build
xushuqi@xushuqideMacBook-Pro build % cmake ..
-- The C compiler identification is AppleClang 13.1.6.13160021
-- The CXX compiler identification is AppleClang 13.1.6.13160021
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info
-- Detecting C compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working C compiler: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/cc - skipped
-- Detecting C compile features
-- Detecting C compile features - done
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info
-- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done
-- Check for working CXX compiler: /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Toolchains/XcodeDefault.xctoolchain/usr/bin/c++ - skipped
-- Detecting CXX compile features
-- Detecting CXX compile features - done
-- Found fmt: /usr/local/lib/cmake/fmt (version 8.1.1)
-- Found pugixml: /usr/local/lib/cmake/pugixml
-- Found HDF5: /usr/local/Cellar/hdf5/1.12.2/lib/libhdf5.dylib;/usr/local/opt/libaec/lib/libsz.dylib;/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX12.3.sdk/usr/lib/libz.tbd;/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX12.3.sdk/usr/lib/libdl.tbd;/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX12.3.sdk/usr/lib/libm.tbd (found version "1.12.2") found components: C HL 
-- Could NOT find OpenMP_C (missing: OpenMP_C_FLAGS OpenMP_C_LIB_NAMES) 
-- Could NOT find OpenMP_CXX (missing: OpenMP_CXX_FLAGS OpenMP_CXX_LIB_NAMES) 
-- Could NOT find OpenMP (missing: OpenMP_C_FOUND OpenMP_CXX_FOUND) 
-- OpenMC C++ flags: -DH5Oget_info_by_idx_vers=1;-DH5O_info_t_vers=1;-O2
-- OpenMC Linker flags: 
-- Found Git: /usr/local/bin/git (found version "2.36.1") 
-- Submodule update
子模组 'vendor/fmt'（https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt.git）已对路径 'vendor/fmt' 注册
子模组 'vendor/gsl-lite'（https://github.com/martinmoene/gsl-lite.git）已对路径 'vendor/gsl-lite' 注册
子模组 'vendor/pugixml'（https://github.com/zeux/pugixml.git）已对路径 'vendor/pugixml' 注册
子模组 'vendor/xtensor'（https://github.com/xtensor-stack/xtensor.git）已对路径 'vendor/xtensor' 注册
子模组 'vendor/xtl'（https://github.com/xtensor-stack/xtl.git）已对路径 'vendor/xtl' 注册
正克隆到 '/Users/xushuqi/Downloads/My_C++/openmc-ncrystal/openmc/vendor/fmt'...
正克隆到 '/Users/xushuqi/Downloads/My_C++/openmc-ncrystal/openmc/vendor/gsl-lite'...
正克隆到 '/Users/xushuqi/Downloads/My_C++/openmc-ncrystal/openmc/vendor/pugixml'...
正克隆到 '/Users/xushuqi/Downloads/My_C++/openmc-ncrystal/openmc/vendor/xtensor'...
正克隆到 '/Users/xushuqi/Downloads/My_C++/openmc-ncrystal/openmc/vendor/xtl'...
子模组路径 'vendor/fmt'：检出 '65ac626c5856f5aad1f1542e79407a6714357043'
子模组路径 'vendor/gsl-lite'：检出 '913e86d49c6a1acca980f4e325378f9dc393493a'
子模组路径 'vendor/pugixml'：检出 '41b6ff21c455865bb8ef67c5952b7f895b62bacc'
子模组路径 'vendor/xtensor'：检出 '31acec1e90bbea6d4bc17af0710a123bd5da6689'
子模组路径 'vendor/xtl'：检出 'c19750fb1488369dc41f6069bc2b8446fc093e75'
-- xtl v0.6.13
-- Building xtensor v0.21.3
-- Found xtl v0.6.13
-- Project 'gsl_lite', package 'gsl-lite' version: '0.36.1'
-- Configuring done
-- Generating done
-- Build files have been written to: /Users/xushuqi/Downloads/My_C++/openmc-ncrystal/openmc/build
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make[2]: *** No rule to make target `/Users/xushuqi/Downloads/My_C++/ncrystal-3.0.0/ncrystal_install/lib/libNCrystal.so', needed by `lib/libopenmc.dylib'.  Stop.
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/libopenmc.dir/all] Error 2
make: *** [all] Error 2

I put the question here because I think that other NCrystal users may confront the same issues.

Thank you very much for your help in advance 🙏.

Best regards,
Shuqi

[tkittel]

Hi @XuShuqi7 .

So the OpenMC hook from HighNESS is not strictly part of NCrystal, but you are right that it might be useful for other users to have the question here. @marquezj do you have any idea of what the problem could be? In the CMake, are you (Ignacio) adding the NCrystal dependency via find_package + adding target dependencies, or something more hardcoded? If the latter, it might be the cause of the problem.

Cheers,
Thomas

Edit: Marking as answer and leaving here in Q&A, since it might serve as a (vague) hint for other users how to use NCrystal with OpenMC :-)

[marquezj]

We do use find_package, and it does work in Linux with NCrystal 3.0.0.

I will check with @XuShuqi7 if it is something specific of his installation (maybe the cmake version?) or something more general.

[marquezj]

I found the bug: I was making a reference to the NCrystal library by filename, instead of library name. And Mac OS uses a different extension for dynamic libraries. It is now fixed in the repo.

Thanks @XuShuqi7 .

[XuShuqi7]

I found the bug: I was making a reference to the NCrystal library by filename, instead of library name. And Mac OS uses a different extension for dynamic libraries. It is now fixed in the repo.

Thanks @XuShuqi7 .

That's great! Thank you very much for your help @marquezj !