How to install mcrypt extension on mac os x yosemite (10.10)

Question

I've updated my Mac OS X to Yosemite, but doing that I over write all my dev environment. So now, to run Laravel 4 on my local apache I need to install the Mcrypt extension, but everything that i've tried i fail. Even the steps that have worked on OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Anybody has the same issue? Thanks in advance.

Cheers

Answer 1

I just installed it right now on my Mavericks installation using homebrew and it worked surprisingly well. Can't say whether or not it will work so well on Yosemite but worth a shot..

Homebrew

brew install autoconf
brew install mcrypt

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Macports

1. Check PHP version

   php -v
   

2. Update Macports

   sudo port -v selfupdate
   

3. Download & install the appropriate version..

   sudo port install php55-mcrypt
   

   now dummy proof it..

4. Find where Macports put the file mcrypt.so and copy it to all instances of /php/extensions/no-debug-... folder. If you have that directory structure in multiple places, copy it to all of them. So every php/extensions/no-debug.. folder on your computer has a copy of mcrypt.so

   sudo cp /opt/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/mcrypt.so /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626/
   

5. Determine where your php.ini file is and make sure it's the one your actually using because you may have this file in more than 1 place. Do this to all php.ini files you find..

   Within that file find and uncomment the following line. If it's commented out, uncomment it. If it's not in the file at all, add it. In my default php.ini file I found this on line 536:

   extension=mcrypt.so
   

Compile

1. Download mcrypt

   curl -O http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/mcrypt/Libmcrypt/2.5.8/libmcrypt-2.5.8.tar.gz
   

2. Uncompress it

   tar -zxvf libmcrypt-2.5.8.tar.gz
   

3. Configure, build, and install

   ./configure && make && sudo make install
   

4. Download Autoconf

   curl -O http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-latest.tar.gz
   

5. Uncompress it

   tar xvfz autoconf-latest.tar.gz
   

6. Configure, build, and install

   ./configure && make && sudo make install
   

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Apache

Regardless which method you used to install it. You should always restart Apache when your done.

1. Restart Apache

   sudo apachectl restart
   

Answer 2

I just did these and it installed. MAMP etc. is not installed.

brew tap josegonzalez/homebrew-php
brew install php55-mcrypt

And weirdly, I had to reinstall to make it install properly.

brew reinstall php55-mcrypt

However, this also re-installed PHP5.5 from source, but no matter, all is working fine on my end.