How to enable mcrypt in php on Mac OSX 10.9?

Question

Since I want to start learning Laravel, I need to install mcrypt in php. I'm on Mac OSX 10.9 and I installed apache and php manually (no mamp or anything like it) so I followed this guide to install mcrypt. The whole procedure works as expected (no errors), but after restarting the server using sudo apachectl restart I have a look at the output of phpinfo(), and I can't find any mentioning of mcrypt.

Since I don't think I had any errors in the process of compiling and installing, I don't really know where to look for the mistake. Does anybody know what would be logical things to check for?

Answer 1

I have the same problem, on MAC OS X 10.9, no mcrypt library working. After some hours and many headaches (I'm not so skilled...) I found this guide, and finally get it working on my local machine: http://jenssegers.be/blog/49/installing-the-php-mcrypt-extension-on-osx-10-9-mavericks

The passage I missed were to go in the ext/mcrypt dir of a new php downloaded package and then type:

cd php-5.4.17/ext/mcrypt/ /usr/bin/phpize ./configure make sudo make install

Then add extension=mcrypt.so in my php.ini file.

That's it. Hope this helps!

Answer 2

By default mcrypt lib is not installed on Mac OSX 10.9. So you have to first install it. You can get it from sourcefroge.net . You also need php 5.4.17 source( check your php version first php -v ). You can get it from github . extract both folders and.

Install autoconf

brew install autoconf

Build and install mcrypt lib

cd libmcrypt-2.5.8
./configure
make
sudo make install

Build php extension

cd php-5.4.17/ext/mcrypt/
/usr/bin/phpize
./configure
make
sudo make install

Finally add extension to php.ini

extension=mcrypt.so

Restart apache sudo apachectl restart

For more detailed info you can check it

Answer 3

http://topicdesk.com/downloads/mcrypt/mcrypt-download

You can download mcrypt installer from here. It works for me!