Mcrypt PHP extension required on Mac OS X

Question

I keep getting this error

Mcrypt PHP extension required

at the bottom after I run a composer update :

Answer 1

In use XAMPP on my Mac, so I had to install php and then compile mcrypt using pecl, after that I copied mcrypt.so to XAMPP.

The actual list of available releases is: http://pecl.php.net/package/mcrypt

The commands was:

echo Install php...
brew install php
/usr/local/opt/php/bin/php -v

echo Correction of "error Connection to `ssl://pecl.php.net:443' failed"...
wget http://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem
sudo cp cacert.pem /private/etc/ssl/cert.pem
sudo mv cacert.pem /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/share/openssl/cert.pem
/usr/local/opt/php/bin/pecl list-all

echo Compile and Install mcrypt.so...
sudo /usr/local/opt/php/bin/pecl install mcrypt-1.0.1

The last message of build process of pecl was:

Build process completed successfully
Installing '/usr/local/Cellar/php/7.2.7/pecl/20170718/mcrypt.so'
install ok: channel://pecl.php.net/mcrypt-1.0.1
Extension mcrypt enabled in php.ini

Based on path of build process I copied the compiled mcrypt.so to XAMPP and enable the extension on php.ini:

sudo cp /usr/local/Cellar/php/7.2.7/pecl/20170718/mcrypt.so /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20170718/mcrypt.so 
echo 'extension=mcrypt.so' >> /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/etc/php.ini

Check if it works:

/Applications/XAMPP/bin/php -i | grep "mcrypt"

The result have to be:

mcrypt
mcrypt support => enabled
mcrypt_filter support => enabled
mcrypt.algorithms_dir => no value => no value
mcrypt.modes_dir => no value => no value

Remember to restart Apache to see it working using browser.

Maybe it helps someone and I win one thumbs up. Thanks