Installing mcrypt extension for PHP on OSX Mountain Lion

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Apologies in advance for the potential n00b questions  I am trying to install the mcrypt extension for PHP on my OSX Mountain Lion machine   The following steps in terminal is what I have done so far to achieve my PHP install  cd  path to downloaded php-5 3 21 ext mcrypt   usr bin phpize   configure cd  path to downloaded php-5 3 21   configure --with-config-file-path  private etc php ini --with-apxs2  usr sbin apxs make sudo make install   Which seems to work well and installs PHP 5 3 21 fine  I have then done  sudo nano  private etc php ini   And included  extension mcrypt so   Along with an Apache restart  phpinfo   doesn t show that the mcrypt extension is loaded   I then tried to specify the extension dir inside php ini  again with no luck    I have done  locate mcrypt so  opt local lib php extensions no-debug-non-zts-20090626 mcrypt so  usr local Cellar php53-mcrypt 5 3 18 mcrypt so   And tried both directories as the extension dir  with no luck   I have also tried the following  after much Googling    configure --with-config-file-path  private etc php ini --with-apxs2  usr sbin apxs --with-mcrypt   Which seems to work OK  but then upon  make   it returns  ext mcrypt mcrypt o  No such file or directory ext mcrypt mcrypt filter o  No such file or directory   Again  no success   What am I doing wrong  It seems like the physical compile of mcrypt so is not happening  or is compiling incorrectly as I would suspect there to be another mcrypt so found under locate   Anyone please help  I ve gone through pages upon pages of Google searches with no luck

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I tend to use Homebrew on Mac  It will install and configure all the stuff for you  http   mxcl github com homebrew     Then you should be able to install it with brew install mcrypt php53-mcrypt and it ll Just Work  tm      You can replace the 53 with whatever version of PHP you re using  such as php56-mcrypt or php70-mcrypt  If you re not sure  use brew search php   Do also remember that if you are using the built in Mac PHP it s installed into  usr bin you can see which php you are using with which php at the terminal and it ll return the path

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Installing php-mcrypt without the use of port or brew     Note  these instructions are long because they intend to be thorough  The process is actually fairly straight-forward  If you re an   optimist  you can skip down to the building the mcrypt extension   section  but you may very well see the errors I did  telling me to   install autoconf and libmcrypt first    I have just gone through this on a fresh install of OSX 10 9  The solution which worked for me was very close to that of ckm - I am including their steps as well as my own in full  for completeness  My main goal  other than  having mcrypt   was to perform the installation in a way which left the least impact on the system as a whole  That means doing things manually  no port  no brew   To do things manually  you will first need a couple of dependencies  one for building PHP modules  and another for mcrypt specifically  These are autoconf and libmcrypt  either of which you might have already  but neither of which you will have on a fresh install of OSX 10 9   autoconf  Autoconf  for lack of a better description  is used to tell not-quite-disparate  but still very different  systems how to compile things  It allows you to use the same set of basic commands to build modules on Linux as you would on OSX  for example  despite their different file-system hierarchies  etc  I used the method described by Ares on StackOverflow  which I will reproduce here for completeness  This one is very straight-forward     mkdir -p   mcrypt dependencies autoconf   cd   mcrypt dependencies autoconf   curl -OL http   ftpmirror gnu org autoconf autoconf-latest tar gz   tar xzf autoconf-latest tar gz   cd autoconf-       configure --prefix  usr local   make   sudo make install   Next  verify the installation by running     which autoconf   which should return  usr local bin autoconf  libmcrypt  Next  you will need libmcrypt  used to provide the guts of the mcrypt extension  the extension itself being a provision of a PHP interface into this library   The method I used was based on the one described here  but I have attempted to simplify things as best I can   First  download the libmcrypt source  available from SourceForge  and available as of the time of this writing  specifically  at   http   sourceforge net projects mcrypt files Libmcrypt 2 5 8 libmcrypt-2 5 8 tar bz2 download  You ll need to jump through the standard SourceForge hoops to get at the real download link  but once you have it  you can pass it in to something like this     mkdir -p   mcrypt dependencies libmcrypt   cd   mcrypt dependencies libmcrypt   curl -L -o libmcrypt tar bz2   lt SourceForge direct link URL gt     tar xjf libmcrypt tar bz2   cd libmcrypt-       configure   make   sudo make install   The only way I know of to verify that this has worked is via the   configure step for the mcrypt extension itself  below   building the mcrypt extension  This is our actual goal  Hopefully the brief stint into dependency hell is over now   First  we re going to need to get the source code for the mcrypt extension  This is most-readily available buried within the source code for all of PHP  So  determine what version of the PHP source code you need     php --version   to get your PHP version   now  if you re lucky  your current version will be available for download from the main mirrors  If it is  you can type something like     mkdir -p   mcrypt php   cd   mcrypt php   curl -L -o php-5 4 17 tar bz2 http   www php net get php-5 4 17 tar bz2 from a mirror   Unfortunately  my current version  5 4 17  in this case  was not available  so I needed to use the alternative historical links at http   downloads php net stas   also an official PHP download site   For these  you can use something like     mkdir -p   mcrypt php   cd   mcrypt php   curl -LO http   downloads php net stas php-5 4 17 tar bz2   Again  based on your current version   Once you have it   and all the dependencies  from above   you can get to the main process of actually building installing the module     cd   mcrypt php   tar xjf php-  tar bz2   cd php-  ext mcrypt   phpize     configure   this is the step which fails without the above dependencies   make   make test   sudo make install   In theory  mcrypt so is now in your PHP extension directory  Next  we need to tell PHP about it   configuring the mcrypt extension  Your php ini file needs to be told to load mcrypt  By default in OSX 10 9  it actually has mcrypt-specific configuration information  but it doesn t actually activate mcrypt unless you tell it to   The php ini file does not  by default  exist  Instead  the file  private etc php ini default lists the default configuration  and can be used as a good template for creating the  true  php ini  if it does not already exist   To determine whether php ini already exists  run     ls  private etc php ini   If there is a result  it already exists  and you should skip the next command   To create the php ini file  run     sudo cp  private etc php ini default  private etc php ini   Next  you need to add the line   extension mcrypt so   Somewhere in the file  I would recommend searching the file for  extension   and adding it immediately prior to the first occurrence   Once this is done  the installation and configuration is complete  You can verify that this has worked by running   php -m   grep mcrypt   Which should output  mcrypt   and nothing else   If your use of PHP relies on Apache s httpd  you will need to restart it before you will notice the changes on the web  You can do so via     sudo apachectl restart   And you re done

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With recent changes in brew  deprecation of homebrew php  you now install php with mcrypt with the following   brew install php 5 6 -with-mcrypt mcrypt   You may have to uninstall previous installs of php

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Another possibility for those who want to keep OS X as clean as possible  is to use vagrant  1  to define a php development environment  Vagrant can use VirtualBox  2  in headless mode   3  of CPU on my 13-inch  Mid 2009 MacBook Pro  to run a virtual machine with the webserver and php and all   To easily create the vagrant environment you can use this great tool https   puphpet com    http   www vagrantup com  https   www virtualbox org

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I just went through this on Mountain Lion   Homebrew blocked on libiconv which it thought was missing but was actually up to date   After an hour of trying to get it to recognize libiconv  I gave up and installed it the old fashion way  which took all of five minutes      download your php version    wget http   www php net get php-5 3 21 tar gz from a mirror   tar -xvzf php-5 3 21 tar gz   cd php-5 3 21 ext mcrypt   phpize     configure   make   make test   sudo make install    mcrypt so is now in your PHP ext dir   usr lib php extensions no-debug-non-zts-20090626  in my case   now you need to add to php ini as a module    vi  etc php ini    insert  extension mcrypt so   sudo apachectl restart   Done - no brew necessary   HTH someone

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Why You re Getting This Error  PHP complains if one of the files like mcrypt so is included using the syntax extension  mcrypt so  but the file is not in the extension dir path   use  lt  php phpinfo      gt  or php -i to check that    It will also tell you which php ini config file is being loaded so you will know where the settings are coming from  Most likely it will be something like  usr local etc php 5 4 php ini if you are using the homebrew version   Take note of the part under it that says something like  Scan this dir for additional  ini files  because what that means is it gives you a place to put your own file  like tweaks ini that is loaded after the main configuration file so that you can make changes and keep up with them easily  Also remember that all the files in this directory get loaded in alphabetical order  so if you have one called adjustments ini that contains mcrypt directives  and there is a mcrypt ini  most likely your settings will be overridden   One alternative to specifying extension  mcrypt so  is to specify the full path to the mcrypt so file  The other option is to edit the extension dir setting   What worked for me  On Mavericks I didn t have to do either  I did a fresh install of homebrew and then added the josegonzalez tap using   brew tap josegonzalez homebrew-php    My other laptop was running Mountain Lion and was also using homebrew in this setup    After you ve tapped that awesome repo you can install php and mcrypt using something like   brew install php54 php54-mcrypt   What if this doesn t work  and why should I use homebrew anyway    I would highly advise trying this route before downloading and building it from source  It s not hard to build from source - but I don t want to have to maintain that  It s one of the reasons to use homebrew in the first place - it s a package manager  with a HUGE community    There is a lot of development on the homebrew project and - if you have problems I d suggest checking out their issues page   So yes you can build it from source and that might seem like a good option right now if you just want mcrypt to work but you may hate yourself for doing this later     If you don t want to be using php54 there is also the php53 branch  They have some instructions at the repo about how to use both of them   switch between them   If you re new to homebrew you should know that you check out what else is available using brew search php54  which gives something like   php54                php54-lzf          php54-snappy         php54-amqp           php54-mailparse    php54-solr           php54-apc            php54-mcrypt       php54-ssh2           php54-apcu           php54-memcache     php54-stats          php54-boxwood        php54-memcached    php54-svm            php54-chdb           php54-midgard2     php54-tidy           php54-couchbase      php54-mongo        php54-timezonedb     php54-dbase          php54-msgpack      php54-tokyotyrant    php54-ev             php54-mysqlnd ms   php54-twig           php54-gearman        php54-oauth        php54-uploadprogress php54-geoip          php54-opcache      php54-uuid           php54-gmagick        php54-parsekit     php54-varnish        php54-graphdat       php54-pcntl        php54-wbxml          php54-http           php54-pdflib       php54-xcache         php54-igbinary       php54-phalcon      php54-xdebug         php54-imagick        php54-proctitle    php54-xhgui          php54-inclued        php54-pspell       php54-xhp            php54-intl           php54-pthreads     php54-xhprof         php54-ioncubeloader  php54-raphf        php54-xmldiff        php54-jsmin          php54-redis        php54-yac            php54-judy           php54-riak         php54-yaf            php54-leveldb        php54-runkit       php54-yaml           php54-libevent       php54-scrypt       php54-yaz            php54-libvirt   TLDR   You should use homebrew to install mcrypt if at all possible If you re getting errors it s probably because your configuration file s  are messed up  Check the extension dir path and figure out where the mcrypt so file is and see if there is a discrepancy  or specify the full path

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I would recommend installing everything via homebrew if you have the option  I went in circles for a while  but installing php 5 x via brew and then the neccessary modules worked a treat   I was working with php 5 4 and used this to get going initially   https   github com josegonzalez homebrew-php  and then installed the additional modules with   brew install php54-redis brew install php54-xdebug brew install php54-mcrypt

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mycrypt o and mcrypt filter o are in the ext  libs of your php downloaded directory  Just copy the files to ext mcrypt  then run make  amp  amp  make install again

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Solution with brew worked only after the following  in your php ini  nano  private etc php ini   add this line   extension   usr local Cellar php53-mcrypt 5 3 26 mcrypt so    Warning  Set the correct PHP version

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Nothing worked and finally got it working using resource  Here and Here  Just remember for OSX Mavericks  10 9  should use PHP 5 4 17 or Stable PHP 5 4 22 source to compile mcrypt  Php Source 5 4 22 here

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This is what I did     wget http   sourceforge net projects mcrypt files Libmcrypt 2 5 8 libmcrypt-2 5 8 tar gz download   tar xzvf libmcrypt-2 5 8 tar gz     configure   make   sudo make install    brew install autoconf    wget file    Users rmatikolai Downloads php-5 4 24 tar bz2   tar xjvf php-5 4 24 tar bz2   cd php-5 4 24 ext mcrypt   phpize     configure   this is the step which fails without the above dependencies   make   make test   sudo make install     sudo cp  private etc php ini default  private etc php ini   sudo vi  private etc php ini   Next  you need to add the line   extension mcrypt so    sudo apachectl restart

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sudo apt-get install php5-mcrypt ln -s  etc php5 mods-available mcrypt ini  etc php5 fpm conf d mcrypt ini service php5-fpm restart service nginx restart

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For me  on Yosemite    brew install mcrypt php56-mcrypt   restart computer  did the trick

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Brew base solution worked for me   Install these packages   brew install brew install mcrypt php54-mcrypt Copy default php ini default to php ini   sudo cp  private etc php ini default  private etc php ini Add this line to php ini file extension section - please verify extension path with install location in your machine  extension   usr local Cellar php54-mcrypt 5 3 26 mcrypt so  Restart your apache server   apache restart

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I d create a shell script to install mcrypt module for PHP 5 3 without homebrew   The scripts install php autoconf if needed and compile module for your php version   The link is here  https   gist github com lucasgameiro 8730619  Thanks

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So after running brew install mcrypt php  I had to install php-mcrypt via pecl   pecl install mcrypt-1 0 1  At the time of writing  mcrypt does not have a stable pecl release  1 0 1 being the current release for php 7 2 and 7 3  and brew install php will install php 7 2

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