Mcrypt is a file encryption method using secure techniques to exchange data. It is required for some web apps for example, the shopping cart software or a php framework like Laravel.

Install mcrypt for php on Mac OSX 10.10 Yosemite for a Development Server October 16, 2014 114 Comments mcrypt is a file encryption method using secure techniques to exchange data. Now run composer in order to run Composer instead of php composer.phar. Installation - Windows# Using the Installer# This is the easiest way to get Composer set up on your machine. Download and run Composer-Setup.exe. It will install the latest Composer version and set up your PATH so that you can call composer from any directory in your.

This tutorial has been tested in OSX 10.10 Yosemite. This guide is really for users with the version of PHP that shipped with OSX Yosemite which is version 5.5.14.

Other downloadable AMP stacks already have mcrypt baked in. Command Line Tools First up you will need the OSX 10.10 version of Command Line Tools which you can download via the Apple available updates in the App store.

Run in the Terminal xcode-select --install Getting it on in OS X Yosemite 10.10 This tutorial works mostly in the Terminal, launch it from /Applications/Utilities, change directory (cd) to the home account and make a directory that you will work in, call it mcrypt cd ~; mkdir mcrypt; cd mcrypt this is direct download link. (version 5.5.14 is the one that currently ships with OSX 10.10) Move both of these files that you downloaded into your working directory – mcrypt in this instance, and go back to Terminal cd ~/mcrypt Expand both files via the command line or just double click them in the Finder: tar -zxvf libmcrypt-2.5.8.tar.gz tar -zxvf php-5.5.9.tar.gz Remove the compressed archives rm *.gz Any errors on the command line including C++ and g++ mostly are due to the command line tools missing. Configuring libmcrypt.

Libmcrypt needs to be configured, enter./configure make sudo make install With the libmcrypt configured and libraries now installed, time for to make the mcrypt extension. Zwo driver for mac.