php dyld: Library not loaded for libldap

Question

I installed ruby on my Mac OSX High Sierra and am running into issues now with my php installation for some reason. I'm on php 7.1 .

Following this (also here ) Github suggestion, I tried

brew update && brew reinstall php71

While installing, it broke at

==> Pouring php@7.1-7.1.23.high_sierra.bottle.tar.gz
==> /usr/local/Cellar/php@7.1/7.1.23/bin/pear config-set php_ini /usr/local/etc/php/7.1/php.ini system

With error:

dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/openldap/lib/libldap-2.4.2.dylib
  Referenced from: /usr/local/Cellar/php@7.1/7.1.23/bin/php
  Reason: image not found
Warning: The post-install step did not complete successfully
You can try again using `brew postinstall php@7.1`

Typing in php into terminal throws the same error.

Other things I've tried:

• I thought perhaps it wasn't linked, so I also tried: brew unlink libldap && brew link libldap - but libldap is not supported by Homebrew
• Then here , while unrelated to postgres, it does discuss the issue of libldap and says to install via brew install openldap (I guess libldap is referred to as openldap to Homebrew) - this installed fine but didn't resolve the issue

How can I fix this?

Answer 1

According to this issue , you need to install openldap and libiconv .

brew install openldap libiconv

I tried it and it worked for my system. I was originally missing the PHP intl extension.

Answer 2

Although I'm not sure why installing Ruby caused the issue, I solved the issue ultimately with:

• According to this discussion , libldap is referred to as openldap to Homebrew. brew install openldap then ran php reinstall php71 . This linked the libraries properly
• The next issue was with libiconv , fortunately this is easily installed with brew install libiconv . Rerunning php install php71 solved the problem

Answer 3

它对我有用：

brew reinstall openldap

Answer 4

此问题在https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/issues/32916 上讨论和跟踪

Answer 5

if you have two PHP running via brew as well a XAMPP, there could be issue in environment path in .bash_profile.

which php

Try above command to see current php path. If it not accurate, set appropriate path and comment other.

export PATH=/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/bin:$PATH
#export PATH=”/usr/local/opt/php@5.6/bin:/usr/local/opt/php@5.6/sbin:$PATH

Answer 6

After trying all above solutions. Finally uninstalling and reinstalling worked for me.

brew uninstall php

brew install php

Answer 7

I specifically had to uninstall the offending version. You can grab this broken version from the line that looked like this:

Referenced from: /usr/local/Cellar/php@7.1/7.1.23/bin/php

In OP's case, it was php@7.1 . In my case it was php@7.3 . After I ran the following based on my situation, everything worked

brew uninstall php@7.3