Mcrypt PHP extension required on Mac OS X

macos laravel laravel-4 mamp mcrypt
cyber8200 picture cyber8200 · Mar 29, 2015 · Viewed 51.3k times · Source

I keep getting this error

Mcrypt PHP extension required

at the bottom after I run a composer update :

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Since I am using Mac, I have tried running :

brew search mcrypt brew install php56-mcrypt

I still get the same error message.

Answer

cyber8200 picture cyber8200 · May 21, 2015

Steps

I solved this by running the following commands

brew update
brew upgrade
brew tap homebrew/dupes
brew tap josegonzalez/homebrew-php
brew install php54-mcrypt
php --version // To Test your php 
sudo composer update

Result

No more Mcrypt warning !!

Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
Nothing to install or update
Generating autoload files
Generating optimized class loader

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