# Parallel FPM on conda-forge

**URL:** <https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/parallel-fpm-on-conda-forge/11151>\
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**Created:** [October 3, 2026, 11:33pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/parallel-fpm-on-conda-forge/11151 "2026-10-03T23:33:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![jacobwilliams](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/jacobwilliams/32/10_2.png) [@jacobwilliams](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/jacobwilliams)\
**Post date:** [October 3, 2026, 11:33pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/parallel-fpm-on-conda-forge/11151/1 "2026-10-03T23:33:36Z")

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I just wanted to point out that, as of today, the latest FPM build on [conda-forge](https://anaconda.org/channels/conda-forge/packages/fpm/overview) is now built with openmp so will compile your code in parallel. This update is courtesy of @awvwgk. So, now for large projects things compile way faster!

Get it with `conda install fpm` or `pixi add fpm`.

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**Author:** ![hkvzjal](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/hkvzjal/32/3055_2.png) [@hkvzjal](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/hkvzjal)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2026, 11:33am UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/parallel-fpm-on-conda-forge/11151/2 "2026-10-04T11:33:57Z")

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This is excellent news! One question though, do you know if other distribution channels could profit from that? For instance, on windows I usually prefere winget to conda to install fpm as it provides an install that is directly visible OS-user wise instead of only for the conda terminal.

And something I was wondering. Is the number of threads fixed to the available threads on the machine or can one adjust it in the fpm build CLI?

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**Author:** ![jacobwilliams](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/jacobwilliams/32/10_2.png) [@jacobwilliams](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/jacobwilliams)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2026, 6:38pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/parallel-fpm-on-conda-forge/11151/3 "2026-10-04T18:38:53Z")

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That’s a question for the FPM developers. I think you have to use the `OMP_NUM_THREADS` env variable? A `-j` argument would be nice…but i don’t think that works?

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**Author:** ![hkvzjal](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/fortran-lang.discourse.group/hkvzjal/32/3055_2.png) [@hkvzjal](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/u/hkvzjal)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2026, 6:43pm UTC](https://fortran-lang.discourse.group/t/parallel-fpm-on-conda-forge/11151/4 "2026-10-04T18:43:08Z")

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> [@jacobwilliams](#):
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> That’s a question for the FPM developers

Sure, just curious if you knew.

> [@jacobwilliams](#):
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> A `-j` argument would be nice…but i don’t think that works?

Exactly what I would love to see.

BTW, I uninstalled in my personal PC the fpm I had from winget and got it on conda to test the parallel build and yes, it is so much faster. Usually building stdlib with fpm was painstakingly slow, thus I was mainly building with cmake+ninja, I now see all my cores busy and the console moving forward very fast 🙂