[php] dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/icu4c/lib/libicui18n.62.dylib error running php after installing node with brew on Mac

I installed node using homebrew (Mojave), afterwards php stoped working and if I try to run php -v I get this error:

php -v
dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/icu4c/lib/libicui18n.62.dylib
  Referenced from: /usr/local/bin/php
  Reason: image not found

I tried to uninstall both node and icu4c but the problem persists

This question is related to php node.js macos homebrew

The answer is


Update - As stated in some of the comments, running brew cleanup could possibly fix this error, if that alone doesn't fix it, you might try upgrading individual packages or all your brew packages.

I just had this same problem. Upgrading Homebrew and then cleaning up worked for me. This error likely showed up for me because of a mismatch in package versions. None of the above solutions resolved my error, but running the following homebrew commands did.

Caution - This will upgrade all your brew packages, including, but not limited to PHP. If you only want to upgrade specific packages make sure to be specific.

brew upgrade // for upgrading all packages -- this is the command I used

brew upgrade {package} // for upgrading a specific package

and finally

brew cleanup

In my case, that happened because icu4c was upgraded to version 63 but my locally installed postgres image still referenced icu4c 62.1. Therefore i had to change the icu4c version used:

 brew info icu4c
 brew switch icu4c <version>

Where version is the the installed version returned by info


I am actually quite surprised that this solution has not been presented yet, and I feel like it is the easiest solution.

Go to GitHub, find the version of the brewfile that matches the version of icu4c that you need and get the raw version of the file (follow the links above and click View File then Raw).

Then just have brew reinstall from that url.

For example, version 62.1:

brew reinstall https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/575eb4bbef683551e19f329f60456b13a558132f/Formula/icu4c.rb

For example, version 64.2:

brew reinstall https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/a806a621ed3722fb580a58000fb274a2f2d86a6d/Formula/icu4c.rb

Turns out I, like @Grey Black, had to actually install v62.1 of icu4c. Nothing else worked.

However, brew switch icu4c 62.1 only works if you have installed 62.1 in the past. If you haven't there's more legwork involved. Homebrew does not make it easy to install previous versions of formulae.

Here's how I did it:

  1. We first need a deep clone of the Homebrew repo. This may take a while: git -C $(brew --repo homebrew/core) fetch --unshallow
  2. brew log icu4c to track down a commit that references 62.1; 575eb4b does the trick.
  3. cd $(brew --repo homebrew/core)
  4. git checkout 575eb4b -- Formula/icu4c.rb
  5. brew uninstall --ignore-dependencies icu4c
  6. brew install icu4c You should now have the correct version of the dependency! Now just to...
  7. git reset && git checkout . Cleanup your modified recipe.
  8. brew pin icu4c Pin the dependency to prevent it from being accidentally upgraded in the future

If you decide you do want to upgrade it at some point, make sure to run brew unpin icu4c


Run npm version, if you see the same error, upgrade npm.

brew upgrade npm.

==> Upgrading 1 outdated package, with result:
npm 8.1.2 -> 10.3.0
==> Upgrading npm
==> Installing dependencies for node: icu4c
==> Installing node dependency: icu4c

Credits


I had the same problem after I upgraded my macOS to version 10.13.6. I can't run composer and php commands. After researching for a while and trying various solutions posted online, reinstalling php using homebrew worked.

brew reinstall [email protected]

Added on March 14th based on Ryan's comment

get the version you are currently using by running php -v and get the right formulae (which you can find here: https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/php) to replace @7.1 in the above command.


This fixed it for me:

brew upgrade node

Just brew remove php and brew install php did not work, nor did brew reinstall php. My solution was to do:

brew remove php
cd /usr/local/Cellar
rm -rf php/
brew install php
brew doctor
brew cleanup

Now php -v gives me:

PHP 7.3.2 (cli) (built: Feb 14 2019 10:08:45) ( NTS )

Seems like it is impossible to link icu4c using brew after latest OS X update. Which makes things more interesting. The only solution I found working for me:

  1. Download and compile icu4c 62.1 to /usr/local/icu4c/62.1
mkdir ~/sources
cd ~/sources
wget http://download.icu-project.org/files/icu4c/62.1/icu4c-62_1-src.tgz
tar xvzf icu4c-62_1-src.tgz
cd icu/source/

sudo mkdir /usr/local/icu4c/62.1
./configure --prefix=/usr/local/icu4c/62.1
make
sudo make install
  1. Link libs:
ln -s /usr/local/icu4c/62.1/lib/*.dylib /usr/local/include/
  1. Set DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH in ~/.bash_profile:
export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/include

This is what finally worked for me.

brew reinstall postgres

After running the above command you might need to run

brew postgresql-upgrade-database

to access your previous data.


brew update && brew upgrade worked for me


I actually tried all of the solutions which made sense, mentioned in this post and yet i still got the same error when running php -v or composer. The node version was fine, npm as well there were no issues on having installed correct versions and they were all running. Running reinstall [email protected] just threw an error. In the end i had to run:

brew reinstall icu4c

This basically worked, with me having to manually then install php dependencies such as imagick.so, imap.so As these libraries were installed for a project that i no longer maintain i can go without them. But if you do have dependancies on them, have in mind that there will be more work to do afterwards.


For me brew reinstall nodejs fixed this - my issue was with running Elixir/Phoenix so not PHP specific, I think it was caused by brew install postgres, but reinstalling that didn't help. I was getting it from npm commands.


i followed this article here and this seems to be the missing piece of the puzzle for me:

brew uninstall node@8

Rather than install an old version of icu4c that the older (precompiled) php can link to, it's better to recompile the old php to link to the more recent library.

brew uninstall [email protected]
brew install --build-from-source [email protected]

This will build php and link it to the newer library. I found reinstall didn't quite work; the new install choked when the destination folder already existed.

I also did brew link --force [email protected] for my environment.


On MacOS Mojave, only way I could fix it was with brew upgrade


In order to downgrade, i had to recompile from source (MacOS Mojave)

$ wget https://ssl.icu-project.org/files/icu4c/62.1/icu4c-62_1-src.tgz
$ tar xvfz icu4c-62_1-src.tgz
$ cd icu/sources
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install

I had problems because my version of PHP (7.3) was expecting icu4c 63 and brew would only install 64.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/55828190/2000947 helped me install 63.


Leland's answer worked for me, but I had to change steps 4 and 6 to:

4) git checkout -B icu4c-62.1 575eb4b

6) brew reinstall Formula/icu4c.rb


On OSX 10.15.4 running xcode-select --install fixed the issue for me.


In my case, brew update icu4c to version 67.1 so my php7.1 doesn't work. Just reinstall icu4c, then it fine.

Ref this: https://devhoi.com/threads/error-dyld-library-not-loaded-usr-local-opt-icu4c-lib-libicui18n-64-dylib-with-php7-1.26/


Got this error, too, after installing php 7.3. I had it resolved upgrading just my old php's versions (5.6 and 7.0, not from the official repos).

The maintainers had compiled new php versions against the current icu4c.

In my case, PHP 7 got from 0.31 to 0.33, and the problem was solved.


The solution in this gist did it for me

brew uninstall --ignore-dependencies node icu4c
brew install node

I solved int by updating all the R packages:

update.packages(checkBuilt = TRUE, ask = FALSE)

my issue:

# npm install -g canvas

dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/icu4c/lib/libicui18n.64.dylib
  Referenced from: /usr/local/opt/node@8/bin/node
  Reason: image not found

for now 20210118, after many try:

...
brew reinstall https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/master/Formula/icu4c.rb
brew upgrade npm
brew install node
brew uninstall --ignore-dependencies node@8 icu4c
brew install icu4c
...

Final worked solution is:

brew reinstall npm


In my case I had to switch between two versions of icu4c since I still maintain PHP 5.6 projects (which use the old icu4c 64.2). brew install and reinstall from raw .rb links always replaces the previously installed versions for some reason.

#fetching 64.2
brew fetch https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/a806a621ed3722fb580a58000fb274a2f2d86a6d/Formula/icu4c.rb 

#fetching stable version
brew fetch https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/master/Formula/icu4c.rb 

cd $(brew --cache)/downloads
tar xvfz e2a83648f37dc5193016ce14fa6faeb97460258b214e805b1d7ce8956e83c1a7--icu4c-64.2.catalina.bottle.tar.gz
tar xvfz e045a709e2e21df31e66144a637f0c77dfc154f60183c89e6b04afa2fbda28ba--icu4c-67.1.catalina.bottle.tar.gz
mv -n icu4c/67.1 $(brew --cellar)/icu4c/
mv -n icu4c/64.2 $(brew --cellar)/icu4c/

then switch between versions

$ brew switch icu4c 64.2
Cleaning /usr/local/Cellar/icu4c/64.2
Cleaning /usr/local/Cellar/icu4c/67.1
Opt link created for /usr/local/Cellar/icu4c/64.2

$ brew switch icu4c 67.1
Cleaning /usr/local/Cellar/icu4c/64.2
Cleaning /usr/local/Cellar/icu4c/67.1
Opt link created for /usr/local/Cellar/icu4c/67.1

I just wanted to leave a detail summary on how to fix this issue at the current moment (this worked for me):

First go to the local installation of homebrew

cd /usr/local/Homebrew/

Homebrew > 2.5 remove the option to install formulas directly from git repos so we need to checkout an older version

git checkout 2.3.0

Install icu4c version (in my case 64.2 was compitable with [email protected])

HOMEBREW_NO_AUTO_UPDATE=1 brew install https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/a806a621ed3722fb580a58000fb274a2f2d86a6d/Formula/icu4c.rb

Go back to current version of homebrew

git checkout -

Tell brew to use the old version of icu4c this way you can chose wich version to use if you have both intalled

brew switch icu4c 64.2

(2021-02) The following, surprisingly easy, solution worked for me:

  1. Open the raw file in your web browser of the version you need: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/a806a621ed3722fb580a58000fb274a2f2d86a6d/Formula/icu4c.rb
  2. Copy paste the contents into a new file named: icu4c.rb
  3. Run: $ brew reinstall icu4c.rb

Source: https://gist.github.com/hgrimelid/703691ab48c4a4d0537cfe835b4d55a6


[2020] edition

For me, it was installing icu4c with the needed version.

If you need to install the old version like version 62, (same steps for else versions), you need to:

  1. Create your own repo (or find someones repo) with this version of brew tap (links are different for every version):

version 62

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/575eb4bbef683551e19f329f60456b13a558132f/Formula/icu4c.rb

version 64

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/a806a621ed3722fb580a58000fb274a2f2d86a6d/Formula/icu4c.rb 

version 66

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/22fb699a417093cd1440857134c530f1e3794f7d/Formula/icu4c.rb

version 67

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/88b9cc789820f2f544d8d4a1053eebb044c2926c/Formula/icu4c.rb
  1. [yourUsername]/homebrew-versions/Formula/
  2. Place downloaded file to 'Formula' folder
  3. brew tap [yourUsername]/homebrew-versions
  4. brew install [yourUsername]/homebrew-versions/icu4c
  5. You got it!

Where [yourUsername] is the name of your GitHub account or person who already have the needed version tap.

Unfortunately, latest homebrew gives no longer a warning and now displays the error: Error: Calling Installation of XXX from a GitHub commit URL is disabled! Use 'brew extract XXX' to stable tap on GitHub instead. So the way to go now is to create a new repo on github called homebrew-versions to host the Formula in a Tap Then initialise it with: brew tap-new MYORG/homebrew-versions after git cloning the homebrew repo as suggested by Shine Hugh, copy paste the raw ruby file to your new Formula. Beware the funny naming convention! Example: File name is: [email protected] Class name is: GettextAT0202 Example: https://github.com/nedap/homebrew-versions

source:https://itnext.io/how-to-install-an-older-brew-package-add141e58d32


I've tried many of the suggestions here, and at the end brew upgrade php is what did the trick for me, but seems the issue is all over the place


in my case, I reinstall all packages installed with Homebrew

$ brew list | xargs brew reinstall

After that, I start to install my version that I need


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