Install PHP's Built In Extensions in macOS
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Should you run into errors related to missing php.h or other .h files, you should check out my post on fixing missing headers on macOS Mojave.
These directions are for working with the native installation of PHP. Your results may vary if you are using a brew, MAMP or otherwise installed version of PHP - I do not recommend this for those cases.
Important: As you are altering the built in version of PHP, you will need to ensure you have disabled System Integrity Protection before you begin. You can find instructions on how to do this here: How to: Disable macOS System Integrity Protection.
This was previously dedicated to installing the Mcrypt extension specifically but in reality can be used to install any of the following extensions distributed with the PHP source.
bcmath ftp mcrypt pdo_oci simplexml wddx
bz2 gd mysqli pdo_odbc skeleton xml
calendar gettext mysqlnd pdo_pgsql snmp xmlreader
com_dotnet gmp oci8 pdo_sqlite soap xmlrpc
ctype hash odbc pgsql sockets xmlwriter
curl iconv opcache phar spl xsl
date imap openssl posix sqlite3 zip
dba interbase pcntl pspell standard zlib
dom intl pcre readline sysvmsg
enchant json pdo recode sysvsem
exif ldap pdo_dblib reflection sysvshm
fileinfo libxml pdo_firebird session tidy
filter mbstring pdo_mysql shmop tokenizerWe need install the required dependencies. If you are not already using Homebrew you will need it.
$ brew install autoconf pkg-configFor certain extensions like mcrypt you may additionally need to install additional libraries such as:
$ brew install libmcryptNext we will download the PHP source. Verify the exact version of PHP you are running. This can be retrieved as follows. The version is highlighted.
$ php --version
PHP 7.1.19 (cli) (built: Aug 17 2018 18:03:17) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
Now we move into a working directory and download the source making sure to update the following for the version from above.
$ cd /tmp
$ curl -L http://php.net/get/php-{{php-version}}.tar.bz2/from/this/mirror > php.tar.bz2
$ open php.tar.bz2
Now we will compile and test the extension.
$ cd php-{{php-version}}/ext/{{extension}}
$ phpize
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make test
$ sudo make install
If all that goes well finally we'll need to add the following to our php.ini - I usually add at it at the end of the file.
extension = {{extension}}.so
You can verify your installation with the following:
$ php --info | grep {{extension}}\\.
Lastly, depending on your setup now you may want to restart apache.
$ sudo apachectl restart
Where is php.ini?
Comment by: Jonathan on
Thank you for this. I must've tried half a dozen different guides doing all sorts of strange things in my attempts to install mcrypt. This guide was the most clear, concise, and easy to follow. I am not certain what PEAR is being used for though.
Comment by: Jesse G. Donat on
Good catch! The PEAR piece was left over from an older version of the guide that utilized PEAR's `pecl` command. I have updated the guide accordingly.
Thank you , steps are pretty simple and its working
Comment by: kmabas on
Don't forget disable SIP in El capitan and earlier and if "phpize" doesn't work, is because you need to install xcode cli tools
Comment by: DMITRY LOBURETS on
Great thank you! This is the only thing after an hour of googling which help to me!
Comment by: Umberto on
Hello there.I would like to point some additional steps I had to do to get it set:
1. copy /etc/php.ini.default to /etc/php.ini
2. locate the mcrypt.so (in my case it was in
/usr/local/Cellar/php56-mcrypt/5.6.30_4/mcrypt.so
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14357107/installing-mcrypt-on-osx-10-8-2-php-5-3-15-with-homebrew
Comment by: Umberto on
Hello there.I would like to point some additional steps I had to do to get it set:
1. copy /etc/php.ini.default to /etc/php.ini
2. locate the mcrypt.so:
/usr/local/Cellar/php56-mcrypt/5.6.30_4/mcrypt.so
3. add the line below to php.ini:
extension = /usr/local/Cellar/php56-mcrypt/5.6.30_4/mcrypt.so
After that I would have opencart running well
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14357107/installing-mcrypt-on-osx-10-8-2-php-5-3-15-with-homebrew
Comment by: shikha on
after running make cmd, getting this error/tmp/php-7.1.19/ext/mcrypt/mcrypt.c:25:10: fatal error: 'php.h' file not found
how to solve this one?
please help
Comment by: Jesse G Donat on
Mojave installation messes up some peoples header files for some unknown reason.You can pretty easily reinstall them following my post here.
Comment by: Greg on
Hi, I've try with intl extension on "sudo make isntall", I have an "Operation not permitted" error :MacBook-Pro-de-Greg-2:intl greg$ sudo make install
Password:
Installing shared extensions: /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20160303/
cp: /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20160303/#INST@47872#: Operation not permitted
make: *** [install-modules] Error 1
Comment by: Jesse G Donat on
I think odds are good you have System Integrity Protection turned on. I updated my post to note that you need to turn it off first, along with a link to directions on how to do so.
Comment by: Ben on
curl -L http://php.net/get/php-{{php-version}}.tar.bz2/from/this/mirror > php.tar.bz2Comment by: Jesse G Donat on
Did you replace the `{{php-version}}` with your PHP Version - something like:
curl -L http://php.net/get/php-7.1.33.tar.bz2/from/this/mirror > php.tar.bz2Comment by: Okky Sari on
Wow! Spent the whole day yesterday trying to get mcrypt on my (homebrew installed) php 5.6 and nothing worked :(But this works flawlessly! Followed all the step, copied the newly built mcrypt library, edited php.ini, and voila! it magically works!
Can't thank you enough for this excellent post