These steps should have been mentioned in the prerequisites of the Laravel Installation Guide, since I'm surely not the only person trying to get Laravel running on macOS.
Install Mcrypt using Homebrew and PECL (comes with PHP)
# PHP 7.3
$ brew install mcrypt
$ pecl install mcrypt-1.0.3
Find your php.ini
:
$ php -i | grep "Loaded Configuration File"
Loaded Configuration File => /usr/local/etc/php/7.3/php.ini
Add this line to your php.ini
:
extension=/usr/local/Cellar/php/7.3.x/pecl/20180731/mcrypt.so
Install Mcrypt using Homebrew
# PHP 7
$ brew install php70-mcrypt
# PHP 5
$ brew install php56-mcrypt --without-homebrew-php
Add this line to /private/etc/php.ini
:
# PHP 7
extension="/usr/local/Cellar/php70-mcrypt/7.0.x/mcrypt.so"
# PHP 5
extension="/usr/local/Cellar/php56-mcrypt/5.6.x/mcrypt.so"
You are ready to go!
Upgrade Mcrypt using Homebrew
$ brew reinstall -fs php71-mcrypt
Try the following steps found here. I setup my PHP using
brew tap shivammathur/php
.My PHP version 7.0 however in the link you can install other PHP versions.
brew tap shivammathur/extensions
brew install shivammathur/extensions/[email protected]
Happy coding!