You can use Intel MKL in a sequential (non-threaded) mode. In this mode, Intel MKL runs unthreaded code. However, it is thread-safe (except the LAPACK deprecated routine ?lacon), which means that you can use it in a parallel region in your OpenMP* code. The sequential mode requires no compatibility OpenMP* run-time library and does not respond to the environment variable OMP_NUM_THREADS or its Intel MKL equivalents.
You should use the library in the sequential mode only if you have a particular reason not to use Intel MKL threading. The sequential mode may be helpful when using Intel MKL with programs threaded with some non-Intel compilers or in other situations where you need a non-threaded version of the library (for instance, in some MPI cases). To set the sequential mode, in the Threading layer, choose the *sequential.* library.
Add the POSIX threads library (pthread) to your link line for the sequential mode because the *sequential.* library depends on pthread .