Issue in installing php7.2-mcrypt

Question

As I\'m trying to load mcrypt extension module from PHP 7.2.X version.
So I tried to make use of PECL library that is compatible to the current version of my PHP, in ord

Answer 1

I followed below steps to install mcrypt for PHP7.2 using PECL.

1. Install PECL

apt-get install php-pecl

2. Before installing MCRYPT you must install libmcrypt

apt-get install libmcrypt-dev libreadline-dev

3. Install MCRYPT 1.0.1 using PECL

pecl install mcrypt-1.0.1

4. After the successful installation

You should add "extension=mcrypt.so" to php.ini

Please comment below if you need any assistance. :-)

IMPORTANT !

According to php.net reference many (all) mcrypt functions have been DEPRECATED as of PHP 7.1.0. Relying on this function is highly discouraged.

Answer 2

As an alternative, you can install 7.1 version of mcrypt and create a symbolic link to it:

Install php7.1-mcrypt:

sudo apt install php7.1-mcrypt

Create a symbolic link:

sudo ln -s /etc/php/7.1/mods-available/mcrypt.ini /etc/php/7.2/mods-available

After enabling mcrypt by sudo phpenmod mcrypt, it gets available.

Answer 3

@praneeth-nidarshan has covered mostly all the steps, except some:

• Check if you have pear installed (or install):

$ sudo apt-get install php-pear

• Install, if isn't already installed, php7.2-dev, in order to avoid the error:

sh: phpize: not found

ERROR: `phpize’ failed

$ sudo apt-get install php7.2-dev

• Install mcrypt using pecl:

$ sudo pecl install mcrypt-1.0.1

• Add the extention extension=mcrypt.so to your php.ini configuration file; if you don't know where it is, search with:

$ sudo php -i | grep 'Configuration File'

Answer 4

sudo apt-get install php-pear php7.x-dev

x is your php version like 7.2 the php7.2-dev

apt-get install libmcrypt-dev libreadline-dev
pecl install mcrypt-1.0.1 

then add "extension=mcrypt.so" in "/etc/php/7.2/apache2/php.ini"

here php.ini is depends on your php installatio and apache used php version.

Answer 5

Mcrypt PECL extenstion

 sudo apt-get -y install gcc make autoconf libc-dev pkg-config
 sudo apt-get -y install libmcrypt-dev
 sudo pecl install mcrypt-1.0.1

When you are shown the prompt

 libmcrypt prefix? [autodetect] :

Press [Enter] to autodetect.

After success installing mcrypt trought pecl, you should add mcrypt.so extension to php.ini.

The output will look like this:

...
Build process completed successfully
Installing '/usr/lib/php/20170718/mcrypt.so'    ---->   this is our path to mcrypt extension lib
install ok: channel://pecl.php.net/mcrypt-1.0.1
configuration option "php_ini" is not set to php.ini location
You should add "extension=mcrypt.so" to php.ini

Grab installing path and add to cli and apache2 php.ini configuration.

sudo bash -c "echo extension=/usr/lib/php/20170718/mcrypt.so > /etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/mcrypt.ini"
sudo bash -c "echo extension=/usr/lib/php/20170718/mcrypt.so > /etc/php/7.2/apache2/conf.d/mcrypt.ini"

Verify that the extension was installed

Run command:

php -i | grep "mcrypt"

The output will look like this:

/etc/php/7.2/cli/conf.d/mcrypt.ini
Registered Stream Filters => zlib.*, string.rot13, string.toupper, string.tolower, string.strip_tags, convert.*, consumed, dechunk, convert.iconv.*, mcrypt.*, mdecrypt.*
mcrypt
mcrypt support => enabled
mcrypt_filter support => enabled
mcrypt.algorithms_dir => no value => no value
mcrypt.modes_dir => no value => no value