How to install mcrypt extension on mac os x yosemite (10.10)

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Anubz picture Anubz · Jun 10, 2014 · Viewed 10.5k times · Source

I've updated my Mac OS X to Yosemite, but doing that I over write all my dev environment. So now, to run Laravel 4 on my local apache I need to install the Mcrypt extension, but everything that i've tried i fail. Even the steps that have worked on OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Anybody has the same issue? Thanks in advance.

Cheers

Answer

davidcondrey picture davidcondrey · Sep 23, 2014

I just installed it right now on my Mavericks installation using homebrew and it worked surprisingly well. Can't say whether or not it will work so well on Yosemite but worth a shot..

Homebrew

brew install autoconf
brew install mcrypt

Macports

  1. Check PHP version

    php -v

  2. Update Macports

    sudo port -v selfupdate

  3. Download & install the appropriate version..

    sudo port install php55-mcrypt

    now dummy proof it..

  4. Find where Macports put the file mcrypt.so and copy it to all instances of /php/extensions/no-debug-... folder. If you have that directory structure in multiple places, copy it to all of them. So every php/extensions/no-debug.. folder on your computer has a copy of mcrypt.so

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

  5. Determine where your php.ini file is and make sure it's the one your actually using because you may have this file in more than 1 place. Do this to all php.ini files you find..

    Within that file find and uncomment the following line. If it's commented out, uncomment it. If it's not in the file at all, add it. In my default php.ini file I found this on line 536:

    extension=mcrypt.so

Compile

  1. Download mcrypt

    curl -O http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mcrypt/Libmcrypt/2.5.8/libmcrypt-2.5.8.tar.gz

  2. Uncompress it

    tar -zxvf libmcrypt-2.5.8.tar.gz

  3. Configure, build, and install

    ./configure && make && sudo make install

  4. Download Autoconf

    curl -O http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-latest.tar.gz

  5. Uncompress it

    tar xvfz autoconf-latest.tar.gz

  6. Configure, build, and install

    ./configure && make && sudo make install

Apache

Regardless which method you used to install it. You should always restart Apache when your done.

  1. Restart Apache

    sudo apachectl restart

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