# fopenmp

Option -fopenmp is a deprecated option that will be removed in a future release.

## Syntax

Linux: | -fopenmp

macOS: | None

Windows: | None

## Arguments

None

## Default

OFF | No OpenMP* multi-threaded code is generated by the compiler.

## Description

Enables recognition of OpenMP* features and tells the parallelizer to generate multi-threaded code based on OpenMP* directives.

Option -fopenmp is a deprecated option that will be removed in a future release. For most users, we recommend that you instead use option qopenmp, Qopenmp.

### Note

This option only applies to host compilation. When offloading is enabled, it does not impact device-specific compilation. Offloading can only be enabled when using ifx.

## IDE Equivalent

None

## Alternate Options

None

Parent topic: Offload Compilation, OpenMP*, and Parallel Processing Options