Installing Mcrypt extension for PHP on Mac OS X 10

Question

How do I install mcrypt? I'm using Leopard 10.5.8 with PHP5.

Answer 1

 # Edit macports.conf
cd /opt/local/etc/macports
sudo nano macports.conf
# Change the line ....
universal_archs ppc i386
# to ...
universal_archs ppc ppc64 i386 x86_64

# Get the MCRYPT Library
sudo port install mcrypt +universal 

Source: This page.

Answer 2

Ok, I just spent 1.5 hours trying to do this myself on 10.6.7

I believe the solution was this:

I installed php5-mcrypt + universal with macports:

$ sudo macports php5-mcrypt +universal

then, you can't just put extension=mycrypt.so in the php.ini file, you have to put the direct path i.e.:

extension = /opt/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/mcrypt.so

you see, PHP looks in /usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/ which is the difference I missed!!

Then just restart apache with your

$ sudo apachectl -k graceful

and then

$ php -m | grep mcrypt

to make sure it's there.

Hope this helps someone!

Answer 3

It depends on how you've installed PHP.

If you installed PHP via macports, you can:

sudo port install php5-mcrypt +universal

If you custom-compiled your PHP, it's probably easiest to just recompile with:

--with-mcrypt=/path/to/mcrypt

(Not sure where macports actually keeps it, since I don't use macports, but just compile my AMP stack (and most dependencies) from source)