xgboost: Problems while installing in OSX 10.11.6?

I am trying to install xgboost’s python wrapper in OSX 10.11.6 with python3. Firstly, I did:

user@MacBook-Pro-de-User-2:~$ brew install gcc --without-multilib
==> Using the sandbox
==> Downloading https://ftpmirror.gnu.org/gcc/gcc-6.2.0/gcc-6.2.0.tar.bz2
Already downloaded: /Users/user/Library/Caches/Homebrew/gcc-6.2.0.tar.bz2
==> Downloading https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/formula-patches/e9e0
Already downloaded: /Users/user/Library/Caches/Homebrew/gcc--patch-863957f90a934ee8f89707980473769cff47ca0663c3906992da6afb242fb220.patch
==> Patching
==> Applying 6.1.0-jit.patch
patching file gcc/jit/Make-lang.in
==> ../configure --build=x86_64-apple-darwin15.6.0 --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/g
==> make bootstrap

==> make install
🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/gcc/6.2.0: 1,357 files, 242.5M, built in 69 minutes 18 seconds

Then, when I proceed to install xgboost with pip3, I get the following:

user@MacBook-Pro-de-User-2:~$ pip3 install xgboost
Collecting xgboost
  Using cached xgboost-0.6a2.tar.gz
    Complete output from command python setup.py egg_info:
    rm -f -rf build build_plugin lib bin *~ */*~ */*/*~ */*/*/*~ */*.o */*/*.o */*/*/*.o xgboost
    clang-omp++ -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -MM -MT build/learner.o src/learner.cc >build/learner.d
    /bin/sh: clang-omp++: command not found
    make: *** [build/learner.o] Error 127
    make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
    clang-omp++ -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -MM -MT build/logging.o src/logging.cc >build/logging.d
    /bin/sh: clang-omp++: command not found
    make: *** [build/logging.o] Error 127
    -----------------------------
    Building multi-thread xgboost failed
    Start to build single-thread xgboost
    rm -f -rf build build_plugin lib bin *~ */*~ */*/*~ */*/*/*~ */*.o */*/*.o */*/*/*.o xgboost
    clang-omp++ -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -MM -MT build/learner.o src/learner.cc >build/learner.d
    /bin/sh: clang-omp++: command not found
    make: *** [build/learner.o] Error 127
    make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
    clang-omp++ -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -MM -MT build/logging.o src/logging.cc >build/logging.d
    /bin/sh: clang-omp++: command not found
    make: *** [build/logging.o] Error 127
    Successfully build single-thread xgboost
    If you want multi-threaded version
    See additional instructions in doc/build.md
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
      File "/private/var/folders/hg/zkgs3l417b7_0l4vth4bf8l00000gn/T/pip-build-hsmd0nxh/xgboost/setup.py", line 29, in <module>
        LIB_PATH = libpath['find_lib_path']()
      File "/private/var/folders/hg/zkgs3l417b7_0l4vth4bf8l00000gn/T/pip-build-hsmd0nxh/xgboost/xgboost/libpath.py", line 45, in find_lib_path
        'List of candidates:\n' + ('\n'.join(dll_path)))
    XGBoostLibraryNotFound: Cannot find XGBoost Libarary in the candicate path, did you install compilers and run build.sh in root path?
    List of candidates:
    /private/var/folders/hg/zkgs3l417b7_0l4vth4bf8l00000gn/T/pip-build-hsmd0nxh/xgboost/xgboost/libxgboost.so
    /private/var/folders/hg/zkgs3l417b7_0l4vth4bf8l00000gn/T/pip-build-hsmd0nxh/xgboost/xgboost/../../lib/libxgboost.so
    /private/var/folders/hg/zkgs3l417b7_0l4vth4bf8l00000gn/T/pip-build-hsmd0nxh/xgboost/xgboost/./lib/libxgboost.so

    ----------------------------------------
Command "python setup.py egg_info" failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/hg/zkgs3l417b7_0l4vth4bf8l00000gn/T/pip-build-hsmd0nxh/xgboost/

Then I tried to build it as the documentation states:


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user@MacBook-Pro-de-User-2:~$ git clone --recursive https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost
Cloning into 'xgboost'...
remote: Counting objects: 17651, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (28/28), done.
remote: Total 17651 (delta 9), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 17611
Receiving objects: 100% (17651/17651), 5.80 MiB | 1.08 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (10851/10851), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
Submodule 'dmlc-core' (https://github.com/dmlc/dmlc-core) registered for path 'dmlc-core'
Submodule 'rabit' (https://github.com/dmlc/rabit) registered for path 'rabit'
Cloning into 'dmlc-core'...
remote: Counting objects: 3710, done.
remote: Total 3710 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 3710
Receiving objects: 100% (3710/3710), 822.86 KiB | 864.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (2197/2197), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
Submodule path 'dmlc-core': checked out 'd8d4dccb8bd89af9f57aa19e7523f0b755563ca4'
Cloning into 'rabit'...
remote: Counting objects: 3096, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (6/6), done.
remote: Total 3096 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 3090
Receiving objects: 100% (3096/3096), 886.44 KiB | 904.00 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (2007/2007), done.
Checking connectivity... done.
Submodule path 'rabit': checked out '2dd7476ad7e4afe97eb579d39aab226ff74400a6'

Then, I tried to build as follows:

user@MacBook-Pro-de-User-2:/$ cd xgboost; cp make/config.mk ./config.mk; make -j4
-bash: cd: xgboost: No such file or directory
cp: make/config.mk: No such file or directory
make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.

Any idea of how to install correctly xgboost?.. a month ago I’ve installed xgboost with pip3 and I did not face the above issues.

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I found this here:

clang LLVM compiler on Mac OS X from Xcode doesn’t support OpenMP multi-thread. An alternative choice is installing homebrew http://brew.sh/ and brew install g+±5 which provides multi-thread OpenMP support.

Bearing that in mind, I tried this and it allows me to install from pip!

$ brew install gcc@5
$ pip install xgboost

I have no idea why this works but brew install gcc --without-multilib didn’t.

I can’t help but think other users will fall into this trap and waste time trying to work out what is actually going wrong. Hopefully this workaround works for them but I’d prefer to see a more reliable installation routine from the pip package 🤞

Although I installed gcc 5 (with brew), the xgboost build still used the LLVM version of gcc (7 in my case). To get the build to use gcc 5 I did:

brew install gcc@5
env CC=gcc-5 CXX=g++-5 pip install xgboost

and this worked for me.

Apparently this worked for OSX:


user@MacBook-Pro-de-User-2:~$ cd xgboost/
user@MacBook-Pro-de-User-2:~/xgboost$ clear
user@MacBook-Pro-de-User-2:~/xgboost$ ls
CMakeLists.txt     R-package/         doc/               rabit/
CONTRIBUTORS.md    README.md          include/           src/
ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md  amalgamation/      jvm-packages/      tests/
LICENSE            build.sh*          make/
Makefile           demo/              plugin/
NEWS.md            dmlc-core/         python-package/
user@MacBook-Pro-de-User-2:~/xgboost$ ./build.sh
g++-6 -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -MM -MT build/learner.o src/learner.cc >build/learner.d
g++-6 -c -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -c src/learner.cc -o build/learner.o
g++-6 -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -MM -MT build/logging.o src/logging.cc >build/logging.d
g++-6 -c -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -c src/logging.cc -o build/logging.o
g++-6 -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -MM -MT build/c_api/c_api.o src/c_api/c_api.cc >build/c_api/c_api.d
g++-6 -c -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -c src/c_api/c_api.cc -o build/c_api/c_api.o
g++-6 -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -MM -MT build/c_api/c_api_error.o src/c_api/c_api_error.cc >build/c_api/c_api_error.d
g++-6 -c -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -c src/c_api/c_api_error.cc -o build/c_api/c_api_error.o
g++-6 -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -MM -MT build/common/common.o src/common/common.cc >build/common/common.d
g++-6 -c -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -c src/common/common.cc -o build/common/common.o
g++-6 -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -MM -MT build/data/data.o src/data/data.cc >build/data/data.d
g++-6 -c -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -c src/data/data.cc -o build/data/data.o
g++-6 -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -MM -MT build/data/simple_csr_source.o src/data/simple_csr_source.cc >build/data/simple_csr_source.d
g++-6 -c -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -c src/data/simple_csr_source.cc -o build/data/simple_csr_source.o
g++-6 -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -MM -MT build/data/simple_dmatrix.o src/data/simple_dmatrix.cc >build/data/simple_dmatrix.d
g++-6 -c -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -c src/data/simple_dmatrix.cc -o build/data/simple_dmatrix.o
g++-6 -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -MM -MT build/data/sparse_page_dmatrix.o src/data/sparse_page_dmatrix.cc >build/data/sparse_page_dmatrix.d
g++-6 -c -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -c src/data/sparse_page_dmatrix.cc -o build/data/sparse_page_dmatrix.o
g++-6 -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -MM -MT build/data/sparse_page_raw_format.o src/data/sparse_page_raw_format.cc >build/data/sparse_page_raw_format.d
g++-6 -c -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -c src/data/sparse_page_raw_format.cc -o build/data/sparse_page_raw_format.o
g++-6 -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -MM -MT build/data/sparse_page_source.o src/data/sparse_page_source.cc >build/data/sparse_page_source.d
g++-6 -c -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -c src/data/sparse_page_source.cc -o build/data/sparse_page_source.o
g++-6 -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -MM -MT build/data/sparse_page_writer.o src/data/sparse_page_writer.cc >build/data/sparse_page_writer.d
g++-6 -c -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -c src/data/sparse_page_writer.cc -o build/data/sparse_page_writer.o
g++-6 -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -MM -MT build/gbm/gblinear.o src/gbm/gblinear.cc >build/gbm/gblinear.d
g++-6 -c -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -c src/gbm/gblinear.cc -o build/gbm/gblinear.o
g++-6 -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -MM -MT build/gbm/gbm.o src/gbm/gbm.cc >build/gbm/gbm.d
g++-6 -c -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -c src/gbm/gbm.cc -o build/gbm/gbm.o
g++-6 -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -MM -MT build/gbm/gbtree.o src/gbm/gbtree.cc >build/gbm/gbtree.d
g++-6 -c -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -c src/gbm/gbtree.cc -o build/gbm/gbtree.o
g++-6 -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -MM -MT build/metric/elementwise_metric.o src/metric/elementwise_metric.cc >build/metric/elementwise_metric.d
g++-6 -c -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -c src/metric/elementwise_metric.cc -o build/metric/elementwise_metric.o
g++-6 -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -MM -MT build/metric/metric.o src/metric/metric.cc >build/metric/metric.d
g++-6 -c -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -c src/metric/metric.cc -o build/metric/metric.o
g++-6 -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -MM -MT build/metric/multiclass_metric.o src/metric/multiclass_metric.cc >build/metric/multiclass_metric.d
g++-6 -c -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -c src/metric/multiclass_metric.cc -o build/metric/multiclass_metric.o
g++-6 -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -MM -MT build/metric/rank_metric.o src/metric/rank_metric.cc >build/metric/rank_metric.d
g++-6 -c -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -c src/metric/rank_metric.cc -o build/metric/rank_metric.o
g++-6 -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -MM -MT build/objective/multiclass_obj.o src/objective/multiclass_obj.cc >build/objective/multiclass_obj.d
g++-6 -c -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -c src/objective/multiclass_obj.cc -o build/objective/multiclass_obj.o
g++-6 -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -MM -MT build/objective/objective.o src/objective/objective.cc >build/objective/objective.d
g++-6 -c -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -c src/objective/objective.cc -o build/objective/objective.o
g++-6 -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -MM -MT build/objective/rank_obj.o src/objective/rank_obj.cc >build/objective/rank_obj.d
g++-6 -c -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -c src/objective/rank_obj.cc -o build/objective/rank_obj.o
g++-6 -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -MM -MT build/objective/regression_obj.o src/objective/regression_obj.cc >build/objective/regression_obj.d
g++-6 -c -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -c src/objective/regression_obj.cc -o build/objective/regression_obj.o
g++-6 -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -MM -MT build/tree/tree_model.o src/tree/tree_model.cc >build/tree/tree_model.d
g++-6 -c -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -c src/tree/tree_model.cc -o build/tree/tree_model.o
g++-6 -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -MM -MT build/tree/tree_updater.o src/tree/tree_updater.cc >build/tree/tree_updater.d
g++-6 -c -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -c src/tree/tree_updater.cc -o build/tree/tree_updater.o
g++-6 -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -MM -MT build/tree/updater_colmaker.o src/tree/updater_colmaker.cc >build/tree/updater_colmaker.d
g++-6 -c -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -c src/tree/updater_colmaker.cc -o build/tree/updater_colmaker.o
g++-6 -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -MM -MT build/tree/updater_histmaker.o src/tree/updater_histmaker.cc >build/tree/updater_histmaker.d
g++-6 -c -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -c src/tree/updater_histmaker.cc -o build/tree/updater_histmaker.o
g++-6 -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -MM -MT build/tree/updater_prune.o src/tree/updater_prune.cc >build/tree/updater_prune.d
g++-6 -c -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -c src/tree/updater_prune.cc -o build/tree/updater_prune.o
g++-6 -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -MM -MT build/tree/updater_refresh.o src/tree/updater_refresh.cc >build/tree/updater_refresh.d
g++-6 -c -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -c src/tree/updater_refresh.cc -o build/tree/updater_refresh.o
g++-6 -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -MM -MT build/tree/updater_skmaker.o src/tree/updater_skmaker.cc >build/tree/updater_skmaker.d
g++-6 -c -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -c src/tree/updater_skmaker.cc -o build/tree/updater_skmaker.o
g++-6 -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -MM -MT build/tree/updater_sync.o src/tree/updater_sync.cc >build/tree/updater_sync.d
g++-6 -c -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -c src/tree/updater_sync.cc -o build/tree/updater_sync.o
cd dmlc-core; /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/make libdmlc.a config=/Users/user/xgboost/make/config.mk; cd /Users/user/xgboost
g++-6 -c -O3 -Wall -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Iinclude  -std=c++0x -fopenmp -fPIC -DDMLC_USE_HDFS=0 -DDMLC_USE_S3=0 -DDMLC_USE_AZURE=0 -o line_split.o src/io/line_split.cc
g++-6 -c -O3 -Wall -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Iinclude  -std=c++0x -fopenmp -fPIC -DDMLC_USE_HDFS=0 -DDMLC_USE_S3=0 -DDMLC_USE_AZURE=0 -o recordio_split.o src/io/recordio_split.cc
g++-6 -c -O3 -Wall -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Iinclude  -std=c++0x -fopenmp -fPIC -DDMLC_USE_HDFS=0 -DDMLC_USE_S3=0 -DDMLC_USE_AZURE=0 -o input_split_base.o src/io/input_split_base.cc
g++-6 -c -O3 -Wall -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Iinclude  -std=c++0x -fopenmp -fPIC -DDMLC_USE_HDFS=0 -DDMLC_USE_S3=0 -DDMLC_USE_AZURE=0 -o io.o src/io.cc
g++-6 -c -O3 -Wall -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Iinclude  -std=c++0x -fopenmp -fPIC -DDMLC_USE_HDFS=0 -DDMLC_USE_S3=0 -DDMLC_USE_AZURE=0 -o local_filesys.o src/io/local_filesys.cc
g++-6 -c -O3 -Wall -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Iinclude  -std=c++0x -fopenmp -fPIC -DDMLC_USE_HDFS=0 -DDMLC_USE_S3=0 -DDMLC_USE_AZURE=0 -o data.o src/data.cc
g++-6 -c -O3 -Wall -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Iinclude  -std=c++0x -fopenmp -fPIC -DDMLC_USE_HDFS=0 -DDMLC_USE_S3=0 -DDMLC_USE_AZURE=0 -o recordio.o src/recordio.cc
g++-6 -c -O3 -Wall -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Iinclude  -std=c++0x -fopenmp -fPIC -DDMLC_USE_HDFS=0 -DDMLC_USE_S3=0 -DDMLC_USE_AZURE=0 -o config.o src/config.cc
ar cr libdmlc.a line_split.o recordio_split.o input_split_base.o io.o local_filesys.o data.o recordio.o config.o
cd rabit; /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/make lib/librabit.a; cd /Users/user/xgboost
g++-6 -c -O3 -msse2 -Wall -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-unknown-pragmas -std=c++0x -fPIC -o allreduce_base.o src/allreduce_base.cc
g++-6 -c -O3 -msse2 -Wall -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-unknown-pragmas -std=c++0x -fPIC -o allreduce_robust.o src/allreduce_robust.cc
g++-6 -c -O3 -msse2 -Wall -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-unknown-pragmas -std=c++0x -fPIC -o engine.o src/engine.cc
g++-6 -c -O3 -msse2 -Wall -Wextra -Wno-unused-parameter -Wno-unknown-pragmas -std=c++0x -fPIC -o c_api.o src/c_api.cc
ar cr lib/librabit.a allreduce_base.o allreduce_robust.o engine.o c_api.o
ar crv lib/libxgboost.a build/learner.o build/logging.o build/c_api/c_api.o build/c_api/c_api_error.o build/common/common.o build/data/data.o build/data/simple_csr_source.o build/data/simple_dmatrix.o build/data/sparse_page_dmatrix.o build/data/sparse_page_raw_format.o build/data/sparse_page_source.o build/data/sparse_page_writer.o build/gbm/gblinear.o build/gbm/gbm.o build/gbm/gbtree.o build/metric/elementwise_metric.o build/metric/metric.o build/metric/multiclass_metric.o build/metric/rank_metric.o build/objective/multiclass_obj.o build/objective/objective.o build/objective/rank_obj.o build/objective/regression_obj.o build/tree/tree_model.o build/tree/tree_updater.o build/tree/updater_colmaker.o build/tree/updater_histmaker.o build/tree/updater_prune.o build/tree/updater_refresh.o build/tree/updater_skmaker.o build/tree/updater_sync.o
a - build/learner.o
a - build/logging.o
a - build/c_api/c_api.o
a - build/c_api/c_api_error.o
a - build/common/common.o
a - build/data/data.o
a - build/data/simple_csr_source.o
a - build/data/simple_dmatrix.o
a - build/data/sparse_page_dmatrix.o
a - build/data/sparse_page_raw_format.o
a - build/data/sparse_page_source.o
a - build/data/sparse_page_writer.o
a - build/gbm/gblinear.o
a - build/gbm/gbm.o
a - build/gbm/gbtree.o
a - build/metric/elementwise_metric.o
a - build/metric/metric.o
a - build/metric/multiclass_metric.o
a - build/metric/rank_metric.o
a - build/objective/multiclass_obj.o
a - build/objective/objective.o
a - build/objective/rank_obj.o
a - build/objective/regression_obj.o
a - build/tree/tree_model.o
a - build/tree/tree_updater.o
a - build/tree/updater_colmaker.o
a - build/tree/updater_histmaker.o
a - build/tree/updater_prune.o
a - build/tree/updater_refresh.o
a - build/tree/updater_skmaker.o
a - build/tree/updater_sync.o
g++-6 -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -shared -o lib/libxgboost.so build/learner.o build/logging.o build/c_api/c_api.o build/c_api/c_api_error.o build/common/common.o build/data/data.o build/data/simple_csr_source.o build/data/simple_dmatrix.o build/data/sparse_page_dmatrix.o build/data/sparse_page_raw_format.o build/data/sparse_page_source.o build/data/sparse_page_writer.o build/gbm/gblinear.o build/gbm/gbm.o build/gbm/gbtree.o build/metric/elementwise_metric.o build/metric/metric.o build/metric/multiclass_metric.o build/metric/rank_metric.o build/objective/multiclass_obj.o build/objective/objective.o build/objective/rank_obj.o build/objective/regression_obj.o build/tree/tree_model.o build/tree/tree_updater.o build/tree/updater_colmaker.o build/tree/updater_histmaker.o build/tree/updater_prune.o build/tree/updater_refresh.o build/tree/updater_skmaker.o build/tree/updater_sync.o dmlc-core/libdmlc.a rabit/lib/librabit.a -pthread -lm  -fopenmp
g++-6 -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -MM -MT build/cli_main.o src/cli_main.cc >build/cli_main.d
g++-6 -c -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -c src/cli_main.cc -o build/cli_main.o
g++-6 -std=c++0x -Wall -O3 -msse2  -Wno-unknown-pragmas -funroll-loops -Iinclude   -Idmlc-core/include -Irabit/include -fPIC -fopenmp -o xgboost  build/cli_main.o build/learner.o build/logging.o build/c_api/c_api.o build/c_api/c_api_error.o build/common/common.o build/data/data.o build/data/simple_csr_source.o build/data/simple_dmatrix.o build/data/sparse_page_dmatrix.o build/data/sparse_page_raw_format.o build/data/sparse_page_source.o build/data/sparse_page_writer.o build/gbm/gblinear.o build/gbm/gbm.o build/gbm/gbtree.o build/metric/elementwise_metric.o build/metric/metric.o build/metric/multiclass_metric.o build/metric/rank_metric.o build/objective/multiclass_obj.o build/objective/objective.o build/objective/rank_obj.o build/objective/regression_obj.o build/tree/tree_model.o build/tree/tree_updater.o build/tree/updater_colmaker.o build/tree/updater_histmaker.o build/tree/updater_prune.o build/tree/updater_refresh.o build/tree/updater_skmaker.o build/tree/updater_sync.o dmlc-core/libdmlc.a rabit/lib/librabit.a  -pthread -lm  -fopenmp
Successfully build multi-thread xgboost
user@MacBook-Pro-de-User-2:~/xgboost$ cd python-package; python3 setup.py install
Install libxgboost from: ['/Users/user/xgboost/python-package/xgboost/../../lib/libxgboost.so']
running install
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However, I would like to know if there is an easier way to install it, any suggestion guys?.

I installed gcc7.1.0 with brew install gcc --without-multilib, then cloned xgboost, cd-ed into the folder, and edited make/config.mk to have

# choice of compiler, by default use system preference.
export CC = gcc-7
export CXX = g++-7 
# export MPICXX = mpicxx

and finally executed cp make/minimum.mk ./config.mk; make -j4

then cd-ed into python-package and executed sudo python3 setup.py install

@d2Code I know I can install from source, but I need to install from pip. I’m trying to get to the bottom of why I can’t install from pip.

How are we meant to install this from PyPi on Mac 10.12? Installation from source is not a solution.

In addition to @davidread 's solution, if pip install doesn’t work for you, try the second line as: env CC=gcc-5 CXX=g++-5 pip3 install xgboost This should work!

@alonsopg the current pip installation requires gcc-5 or clang-omp which both can be installed via brew. It was done before the recent instruction update. Since major Mac OS X users now use gcc-6, I will update the next version to gcc-6, meanwhile, please install from github as you have compiled

@JoeNyland’s solution worked for me also. Thanks!!

The following worked for me to get the newest version of XGBoost into Anaconda painlessly:

brew install gcc@5
env CC=gcc-5 CXX=g++-5 pip install xgboost

Yes, agreed. The pip installation was made for the golden stable version of xgboost so a stable version of gcc was chosen. The pip installation will soon use the official release and get precompiled binary as planned.

However I still get the following error message after running $ brew install gcc@5 $ pip install xgboost

Any idea why am I getting this? Much appreciate.

make: *** [build/data/simple_dmatrix.o] Error 1
Successfully build single-thread xgboost
If you want multi-threaded version
See additional instructions in doc/build.md
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/private/var/folders/60/6w9_z9yd24n7nwv1cg23zz340000gn/T/pip-build-B7gSEL/xgboost/setup.py", line 29, in <module>
    LIB_PATH = libpath['find_lib_path']()
  File "/private/var/folders/60/6w9_z9yd24n7nwv1cg23zz340000gn/T/pip-build-B7gSEL/xgboost/xgboost/libpath.py", line 45, in find_lib_path
    'List of candidates:\n' + ('\n'.join(dll_path)))
__builtin__.XGBoostLibraryNotFound: Cannot find XGBoost Libarary in the candicate path, did you install compilers and run build.sh in root path?
List of candidates:
/private/var/folders/60/6w9_z9yd24n7nwv1cg23zz340000gn/T/pip-build-B7gSEL/xgboost/xgboost/libxgboost.so
/private/var/folders/60/6w9_z9yd24n7nwv1cg23zz340000gn/T/pip-build-B7gSEL/xgboost/xgboost/../../lib/libxgboost.so
/private/var/folders/60/6w9_z9yd24n7nwv1cg23zz340000gn/T/pip-build-B7gSEL/xgboost/xgboost/./lib/libxgboost.so

----------------------------------------

Command “python setup.py egg_info” failed with error code 1 in /private/var/folders/60/6w9_z9yd24n7nwv1cg23zz340000gn/T/pip-build-B7gSEL/xgboost/

thank for your solution!@JoeNyland