Comments on: mcrypt support for PHP on 64 bit Mac OS X 10.5

By: Glen

Glen — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:42:23 +0000

Yes, you need the Apple Developer Tools installed – Installing XCode should also install build tools like make.

By: Mady

Mady — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:57:42 +0000

BTW I don’t have Xcode downloaded.Is it required to add libcrypt?

By: Mady

Mady — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 17:49:59 +0000

Hi Glen,
I am newbie.I am planning to work with default php that comes with imac.I installed mysql,phpmyadmin also.Does libcrypt work with default php? I am following your instructions but make doesn’t work, says bash:make:command not found. Please help.Once this is resolved I’ll be all set to learn.
Thanks.

By: help for googlers

help for googlers — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 03:12:39 +0000

@Kike, @ romain

you don’t want mcrypt, you want libmcrypt

By: Romain

Romain — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 09:47:57 +0000

I have the same error than Kike. Any solution?

By: Jim Miller

Jim Miller — Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:58:14 +0000

mcrypt is still missing from 10.6, but this method worked fine getting it going. Thanks!

By: Kike

Kike — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 20:22:41 +0000

Hi… I have a problem compilling mcrypt…
Terminal returns:
configure: error: *** libmcrypt was not found

when I make: ./configure –disable-shared

By: Atypik Design

Atypik Design — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 06:51:37 +0000

Hi,

I used the tutorial to install mcrypt on Snow Leopard 10.6 and it worked with 2 twicks that were necessary (for me!) to have the mcrypt extension get loaded AND no error for “time zone”: define the FULL path to extensions directory AND set “timezone”.

In php.ini, i did the following:

For extensions dir:
- find and copy/paste the line : ;extension_dir = “./”
- uncomment the copied line (remove
- replace “./” with FULL path to your extensions directory (for me it is: /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20090626)
- if ever mcrypt.so was installed in “20090613″, use terminal to cpy it to “20090626″
- add the following line: extension=mcrypt.so

To set “timezone”, i added this line:
date.timezone = “Europe/Paris”

Hope this helps !

By: Orolin

Orolin — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 13:39:26 +0000

There, it works!:) Thanks again dude, and keep up the good work. You probably saved me days of headache…

By: Glen

Glen — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 21:49:23 +0000

Hey Orolin. If you want to make mcrypt available for the entire webserver, you will need to make sure the /etc/php.ini file contains the following line:

extension=mcrypt.so

Also, make sure the extension_dir line is commented out:

;extension_dir = "./"

This will make PHP look in the /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/ directory for extensions by default.

After making the necessary changes, restart your webserver and you should find mcrypt is available to apps like phpMyAdmin.