Plugging mcrypt into PHP, on Leopard 10.5.6

The answer to that, my old friend, is enigmatic. Now shut thy cake trap and email me some fam-damily X-mas pics!

Thanks for the guide.

I followed word by word, except the fact that I had to run them as a sudo.

But I don’t see it in phpinfo()

There was no compile error. The shared mcrypt extension was install in /usr/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20060613/ . php.ini was in /etc and has enable_dl = On and ;extension_dir =”./”

From phpinfo(), the configure command was :

‘/SourceCache/apache_mod_php/apache_mod_php-44.1/php/configure’ ‘–prefix=/usr’ ‘–mandir=/usr/share/man’ ‘–infodir=/usr/share/info’ ‘–disable-dependency-tracking’ ‘–with-apxs2=/usr/sbin/apxs’ ‘–with-ldap=/usr’ ‘–with-kerberos=/usr’ ‘–enable-cli’ ‘–with-zlib-dir=/usr’ ‘–enable-trans-sid’ ‘–with-xml’ ‘–enable-exif’ ‘–enable-ftp’ ‘–enable-mbstring’ ‘–enable-mbregex’ ‘–enable-dbx’ ‘–enable-sockets’ ‘–with-iodbc=/usr’ ‘–with-curl=/usr’ ‘–with-config-file-path=/etc’ ‘–sysconfdir=/private/etc’ ‘–with-mysql-sock=/var/mysql’ ‘–with-mysqli=/usr/bin/mysql_config’ ‘–with-mysql=/usr’ ‘–with-openssl’ ‘–with-xmlrpc’ ‘–with-xsl=/usr’ ‘–without-pear’

There isn’t anything in apache2 log files to indicate an error anywhere.

Any ideas ?

Badrul – the Apache is the same as mine, so that is likely not the issue. Had you previously tried compilation, with or without apparent errors? Reason I ask – when I was trying over and over with slight variations, I found that I had to delete the source folders and untar fresh source before recompiling. The latest error you are finding in the log is the same one I got many times previously before figuring that out – try deleting the source folders, untar the archive source files, and trying compilation again.

Also, thanks for the extension bit – I forgot that, and have updated the post.

Thanks a lot for this writing it helped me a lot to configure phpmyadmin on my machine! It was complaining about mcrypt, and now it works!

I’m new to mac so this maybe a dumb question, but when I try to compile and run gcc -MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.5 CFLAGS=’-O3 -fno-common -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -arch ppc7400 -arch ppc64′ LDFLAGS=’-O3 -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -arch ppc7400 -arch ppc64′ CXXFLAGS=’-O3 -fno-common -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -arch ppc7400 -arch ppc64′ ./configure –disable-dependency-tracking

It is saying “No such file or directory”. Any thoughts. It seems pretty straight forward but not working. I did try compiling w/ just the ./configure and that works but the mcrypt does not appear after i complete the rest of your steps. So i’m not sure if i’m not seeing it b/c I’m not running the first part or something else. I have new macbook pro with the default php, apache, and I compiled mysql myself.

Thanks,

Michael

Yes I am doing those three things. I know i gcc install b/c i compiled mysql prior to this. The command i’m running is

sudo gcc MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.5 CFLAGS=’-O3 -fno-common -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -arch ppc7400 -arch ppc64′ LDFLAGS=’-O3 -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -arch ppc7400 -arch ppc64′ CXXFLAGS=’-O3 -fno-common -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -arch ppc7400 -arch ppc64′ ./configure –disable-dependency-tracking

and it says No such file or directory for each line in the above command. This is weird. Any thoughts? Thanks.

Jason – Please note that what I posted above is exactly how I did it – no mods. Try it just as it is displayed above – without adding ‘gcc’ anywhere. And you are probably going to need to unpack clean source too.

Great run-through. I haven’t set up a sleek php/mysql machine since 10.3. The scenery has changed a bit. It’s all up and running for me now, but I am left wondering how it is now integrated into the OS. What does the above procedure actually do? (My guess: compile a non-apple-ified PHP, compile mcrypt, create a PHP-compatible .so extension for mcrypt, nudge Apache to see the new PHP?)

What effects will the above have on OS X Server? With macports, for example, installing mcrypt throws everything into /opt. Doing it this way, are standard “Software Update”s going to kill this PHP since the OS already “had its own”? If I use other PHP extensions, will they be in a different extension dir, the loading of which is now commented out? (the article says do not uncomment, but mine already was uncommented so I added the semicolon). Anything else we should keep in mind going forward? — Thanks again; it’s great to be up and running so quickly.

@Joel – Sorry I haven’t gotten back to you sooner. On Server I do not know – this process was for the desktop version only, something I only got around to pointing about when I did the post on setting up SSL. Also – I don’t think standard updates will kill this, unless the update overwrites all config files – I’ve never seen that happen before, even when running Entropy PHP on Tiger. And yes, all the extensions should be in separate directories – check under your php directory source to see the standard stuff that comes with the 5.2.6 package – you need separate extension references for each ‘plug-in’ (I’m 90% sure on that).

@Beware – glad it all worked out!

Daniel – That libmcrypt source is architecture independent, so I’m fairly certain that is not the issue. I don’t have a PPC-based machine to try this on, so let’s hope someone cruises by and can help us with this problem.

ANYONE WHO HAS HAD SUCCESS WITH COMPILING LIBMCRYPT ON POWERPC, ALL THOUGHTS ARE APPRECIATED.

Just ran sudo make install and here’s the last few lines of errors:

ld: duplicate symbol _yytext in Zend/zend_ini_scanner.o and Zend/zend_language_scanner.o for architecture x86_64
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
ld: duplicate symbol _yytext in Zend/zend_ini_scanner.o and Zend/zend_language_scanner.o for architecture i386
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
ld: duplicate symbol _yytext in Zend/zend_ini_scanner.o and Zend/zend_language_scanner.o for architecture ppc
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
ld: duplicate symbol _yytext in Zend/zend_ini_scanner.o and Zend/zend_language_scanner.o for architecture ppc64
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
lipo: can’t open input file: /var/tmp//ccCTDo9s.out (No such file or directory)
make: *** [sapi/cgi/php-cgi] Error 1

I’ve tried 5.2.8 and just now 5.2.6 without success. If I do it exactly as you have typed in your tutorial, I get the following just after .configure runs:
=============================================
Thank you for using PHP.

Notice: Following unknown configure options were used:

–with-php-config=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk/usr/bin/php-config

Check ‘./configure –help’ for available options
=============================================
When I try to enter options that include the basics I need, I then get the “duplicate symbol _yytext…” errors.
I’ve verified that /Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk/usr/bin/php-config exists, but don’t know how to get it to work with .configure. Any thoughts?

Randy – Ok, just want to make sure we have the version stuff correct first (‘m assuming you know what I’m about to say – just checking)…

PHP should already be on the laptop, and unless Apple updates changed it the version should be 5.2.6. Go into your /Library/WebServer/ directory, and copy the base Apache docs to an new directory and then clean out the old. Create a blank index.php file in the Documents directory, alone, and put this in the file…

Then start Apache and point your browser to that file. It’ll tell you the version of PHP already running.

You need the PHP source for the same version number, and I suspect that’ll be 5.2.6.

Also, you do have XCode installed, right?

R –

If I wanted to try re-compiling using the Developer SDK’s php-config file, since –with-php-config isn’t a valid option, would I try –with-config-file-path= (say’s that’s for php.ini, not php-config) or –with-config-file-scan-dir= (say’s for config files, but not specifically php.ini)?

That I do not know, and when I started manipulating the configure strings outside of the researched stuff above I got nowhere. I was loath to recompile PHP from the start, which is why I went the DSO route. I’ve always had trouble with the PHP, and prior to this Leopard round always used Marc’s entropy.ch packages (http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/php/).

But…I did have the same problem with the .so file crashing Apache, that is before I completely deleted all the source, unzipped new source, and tried again.

Am trying this again after upgrading to 10.5.7 (PPC iMac 1.8GHz). The make -j6 (php-5.2.9 & mcryptlib-2.5.8) ends with this error:

lipo: can’t open input file: /var/folders/Uj/UjubtB0bFpO0Z-wLiC7B9E+++TM/-Tmp-//ccmsG1mx.out (No such file or directory)
make: *** [sapi/cli/php] Error 1
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs….
ld: duplicate symbol _yytext in Zend/zend_ini_scanner.o and Zend/zend_language_scanner.o for architecture ppc64
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
lipo: can’t open input file: /var/folders/Uj/UjubtB0bFpO0Z-wLiC7B9E+++TM/-Tmp-//cctV1Iuz.out (No such file or directory)
make: *** [sapi/cgi/php-cgi] Error 1

Daniel

Hi there,

I can’t seem to get mcrypt working on my machine following this post — any help really appreciated 🙂

I’m running OS X 10.5.7 w/PHP 5.2.8 and Xcode 3.1.2 installed.

0) downloaded php-5.2.8 from php.net and libmcrypt-2.5.8, unzipped and placed both directories in “SourceCache” on my desktop.

1) opened Terminal, cd’d me into the libmcrypt-2.5.8 directory and ran “MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.5 CFLAGS=’-O3 -fno-common -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -arch ppc7400 -arch ppc64′ LDFLAGS=’-O3 -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -arch ppc7400 -arch ppc64′ CXXFLAGS=’-O3 -fno-common -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -arch ppc7400 -arch ppc64′ ./configure –disable-dependency-tracking”. No errors spotted.

2) then ran “make -j6” and “sudo make install” — seemed to have done fine.

3) went into php-5.2.6/ext/mcrypt and ran all three commands — again, no errors spotted.

4) And, at last, I opened php.ini and:

4.1) I noticed extension_dir = “./” was in use (not commented out). Following this post I commented it out (ref. “but do not remove the ; from in front of ;extension_dir = “./””)

4.2) enable_dl = On was already correct, so no need to change it.

4.3) Found “; Dynamic Extensions ;” and replaced “;extension=php_mcrypt.dll” with “extension=mcrypt.do”.

Rebooted, looked at phpinfo.php but no mcrypt… 🙁

All’s well that ends well, Espen. Glad this helped.

Appreciate that David – I never noticed it before. And I did take the advice…thanks!

thank you so much!

Randy:

I was having the same issue with the following error:

Notice: Following unknown configure options were used:

–with-php-config=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk/usr/bin/php-config

Check ‘./configure –help’ for available options

I discovered that I was not running configure inside ext/mcrypt and was instead running it in the php-5.2.8 source root. ./configure is supposed to be run from within ext/mcrypt or it fails as we’re seeing.

My new MBP w/ 10.5.7 came with PHP 5.2.8 pre-installed and Xcode 3.1.2. I also had to comment out the ;extension_dir = “./” line in order to get mycrypt working.

Great work!!! Thanks a lot!

It worked in the end 🙂

Although I got loads of ‘pointer signedness’ errors during the making of libmcrypt. Has anyone got a clue what’s that about?
Also I removed the ppc architectures from both of the configurations as I’m using them only on my MBP. Seems to work so far.
And as mentioned earlier already I also had to re-comment the extension_dir option.
Running OSX 10.5.7, php 5.2.8, Xcode 3.1.3

Recommendation: maybe it would be a good idea to put the folder names on separate lines as I missed the ‘ext/mcrypt’ bit initially exactly the same way as Jory did a few posts back.

Otherwise great work figuring all this out!

You compiled your own PHP? What version of php does the phpinfo command say?

Michael great post .. but after punching in the ./configure statement exactly as above it fails:

…
…

checking for libmcrypt-config… no
checking for libmcrypt – version >= 2.5.0… no
*** Could not run libmcrypt test program, checking why…
*** The test program failed to compile or link. See the file config.log for the
*** exact error that occured. This usually means LIBMCRYPT was incorrectly installed
*** or that you have moved LIBMCRYPT since it was installed. In the latter case, you
*** may want to edit the libmcrypt-config script: no

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Hello Michael,

I wanted to say, Thanks so much for providing this: the only fix on the web that I could find with hours of poring over bash.

I was wondering,
Do you know of any good resources to learn about the huge commands that are in this article?

Things like this:
MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.5 CFLAGS=’-O3 -fno-common -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -arch ppc7400 -arch ppc64′ LDFLAGS=’-O3 -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -arch ppc7400 -arch ppc64′ CXXFLAGS=’-O3 -fno-common -arch i386 -arch x86_64 -arch ppc7400 -arch ppc64′ ./configure –with-php-config=/Developer/SDKs/MacOSX10.5.sdk/usr/bin/php-config

Is this standard Unix manipulation?

Works well on 10.6 with the following adjustments : remove all G4 and G5 arch params (-arch ppcXXX), the compiler provided with 10.6 does not support these architectures anymore. Replace 10.5 with 10.6 (especially the one in the SDK path).

I don’t really know what happens, but I suggest to double-check you downloaded libmcrypt and not mcrypt.

@Chuck – I’ll look into it when I get the chance, but as credited in the tutorial I took lots of pieces/parts from others to get this right.

@Yvan – Thanks very very much. You prompted me to run out and get Snow Leopard for a test. Once I’m done I’ll update everyone (and of course give credit where credit is due).

Kike – There is a link at the beginning of the post for libmcrypt. I just checked it, and it is still correct as far as links go – you want libmcrypt 2.5.8, not mcrypt.

You are not compiling PHP here – just mcrypt specifically for use with PHP.

I’m not sure what that means, but I am sure that the file compiled on someone else’s machine isn’t going to work on yours unless the entire configuration is precisely the same.

I’ve followed the discussion, and think your best bet is to start from scratch and follow the directions to the letter. I tried lots of shortcuts before getting it done exactly as prescribed above, and don’t have a way to duplicate problems without screwing up a stable install.

Looks like you don’t have libmcrypt installed. This process only works in the exact way described above, using the source I linked to. In this case it’s libmcrypt 2.5.8 yet your error says 2.5.6. Don’t know what else to suggest.

You’re SO GREAT!… I was getting that error because of PHP Version.

THANKS! You’re great!