Installing mcrypt on OSX 10.8.2 - PHP 5.3.15 with

Question

I've successfully installed mcrypt via homebrew but I'm struggling to find the path to mcrypt.so to include it as an extension in php.ini.

mcrypt was installed at /usr/local/Cellar/mcrypt/2.5.8. Tree:

-- AUTHORS
|-- ChangeLog
|-- INSTALL_RECEIPT.json
|-- NEWS
|-- README
|-- TODO
|-- bin
|   `-- libmcrypt-config
|-- include
|   |-- mcrypt.h
|   `-- mutils
|       `-- mcrypt.h
|-- lib
|   |-- libmcrypt.4.4.8.dylib
|   |-- libmcrypt.4.dylib -> libmcrypt.4.4.8.dylib
|   `-- libmcrypt.dylib -> libmcrypt.4.4.8.dylib
`-- share
    |-- aclocal
    |   `-- libmcrypt.m4
    `-- man
        `-- man3
            `-- mcrypt.3

I tried to include mcrypt.h in php.ini:

extension="/usr/local/Cellar/mcrypt/2.5.8/include/mcrypt.h"

and then restarted apache. but it didn't work.

when I run php in the terminal I get:

PHP Warning:  PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library
'/usr/local/Cellar/mcrypt/2.5.8/include/mcrypt.h' - dlopen(/usr/local/Cellar/mcrypt/2.5.8/include/mcrypt.h, 9): 
image not found in Unknown on line 0

Answer 1

Worked like a piece of cake with this.

$ brew install mcrypt
Warning: mcrypt-2.6.8 already installed
$ brew install php55-mcrypt
Warning: php55-mcrypt-5.5.20 already installed

Then test it out:

$ php -m | grep mcrypt
mcrypt

$ php -i | grep mcrypt
Additional .ini files parsed => /usr/local/etc/php/5.5/conf.d/ext-mcrypt.ini,
Registered Stream Filters => zlib.*, bzip2.*, convert.iconv.*, string.rot13, string.toupper, string.tolower, string.strip_tags, convert.*, consumed, dechunk, mcrypt.*, mdecrypt.*
mcrypt
mcrypt support => enabled
mcrypt_filter support => enabled
mcrypt.algorithms_dir => no value => no value
mcrypt.modes_dir => no value => no value

Answer 2

First check if brew is up-to-date:
brew doctor

Second install mcrypt based on php version:
brew install php53-mcrypt

NB: Step three below is not required on recent versions of brew:

Third open php.ini file and add reference:
sudo vi /private/etc/php.ini
extension="/usr/local/Cellar/php53-mcrypt/5.3.25/mcrypt.so"

Finally, restart apache:
sudo apachectl restart

Answer 3

This may prove useful...

1. brew tap homebrew/homebrew-php
2. brew install php56-mcrypt

Answer 4

After wondering for hours through different advices, this one worked for me (Installed via MacPorts):

Courtesy of Chris Brewer:

Download and install MacPorts from http://macports.org.

The following steps are performed in the Terminal:

Force MacPorts to update (will only work if Apple's Xcode installed):

sudo port -v selfupdate

Now, install memcached:

sudo port install php5-mcrypt

Copy the newly created shared object for mcrypt into Mac OS X’s default PHP5 extension directory:

sudo cp /opt/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/mcrypt.so /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/

Next, you need to edit php.ini to add the extensions. Find the phrase Dynamic Extensions, and add:

extension=mcrypt.so

And finally, restart Apache:

sudo apachectl restart

Answer 5

I've solved the problem with this

brew install php54-mcrypt --without-homebrew-php

Then I add this line to /etc/php.ini.

extension="/usr/local/Cellar/php54-mcrypt/5.4.24/mcrypt.so"

If this file doesn't exists you'll need to copy it from /etc/php.ini.default. Also I check the version of my php with php -v (And it was 5.4.x)

Answer 6

I appreciate the work you did on this! This worked for me. I am on a mac and it was looking for xcode. The Developer location hadn't been set so I had to do all of this.

(RESOLVE THE DEVELOPER PATH) How can I resolve "Error: No developer directory found at /Developer"?

1. sudo xcode-select -switch /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer

(SIGN THE AGREEMENT TO USE XCODE)

2. sudo xcodebuild -license

Lastly follow the above steps!