Adding MCRYPT to your OSX based PHP server setup

SOURCE: http://remonpel.nl/2012/01/adding-mcrypt-to-your-osx-based-php-server-setup/

Preparation

Fire up your terminal and do this;

php --version

Now you will see the version number of your PHP; you will need to match the source version with this. Mine is 5.3.15 for PHP and I downloaded the 2.5.8 version of mcrypt. If you use different versions, then substitute the correct versions.

mkdir /tmp/source && cd /tmp/source
curl --location -s http://sourceforge.net/projects/mcrypt/files/Libmcrypt/2.5.8/libmcrypt-2.5.8.tar.gz/download | tar -zx
curl --location -s http://nl3.php.net/get/php-5.3.15.tar.gz/from/nl1.php.net/mirror  | tar -zx

Installation

cd /tmp/source/libmcrypt-2.5.8
MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.8 CFLAGS='-O3 -fno-common -arch i386 -arch x86_64' LDFLAGS='-O3 -arch i386 -arch x86_64' CXXFLAGS='-O3 -fno-common -arch i386 -arch x86_64'  ./configure --disable-dependency-tracking
make -j6
sudo make install

cd /tmp/source/php-5.3.15/ext/mcrypt/
phpize
MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.8 CFLAGS='-O3 -fno-common -arch i386 -arch x86_64' LDFLAGS='-O3 -arch i386 -arch x86_64' CXXFLAGS='-O3 -fno-common -arch i386 -arch x86_64'  ./configure --with-php-config=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Platforms/MacOSX.platform/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.8.sdk/usr/bin/php-config
make -j6
sudo make install

Possible errors

You may encounter a problem during build if some C modules aren’t available. If you get an error like this

error: 'PHP_FE_END' undeclared here (not in a function)

. You can avoid this by editing the file mentioned in the error message and replace all occurrences of PHP_FE_END with {NULL,NULL,NULL} .

Same thing might happen with function ZEND_MOD_END .

After fixing, issue the commands

make -j6
sudo make install

This should build now.

I have no idea what effect this will have on the end-result, but at least it builds :)

Cleanup

now remove the temporary files

cd ~ && rm -rf /tmp/source

Activation

Edit your PHP configuration

sudo nano /etc/php.ini

if “New file” is shown, please copy php.ini-dist to php.ini and try again. Use google for this one :)

other tutorials tell you to set

enable_dl=on

but do NOT, I repeat NOT do that; the DL function is deprecated and limited to a few extensions anyway, so you do NOT need this. Just add this line on the bottom of your php.ini;

extension=mcrypt.so

Now restart your Apache
sudo apachectl restart

in your terminal type

php --info | grep crypt

you should see:

mcrypt support => enabled

Now you’re done!