Homebrew-core: mcrypt missing?

[craigcarnell]

Since moving php7.1 to [email protected] I can't find mcrypt!

php -m
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[SMillerDev]

You can use pecl to install mcrypt.

[craigcarnell]

@SMillerDev Thanks - what is the command? I don't even have pecl installed

[SMillerDev]

Installing extensions with PECL is well documented. PECL and PEAR are part of the php binaries after the move of php to homebrew core.

[craigcarnell]

@SMillerDev It really isn't!

pecl

-bash: pecl: command not found

[SMillerDev]

It is part of both my php installs (as it's compiled with it) so I'm not sure what's going wrong with your install.

smillerdev@local ~> find /usr/local/Cellar/php* -name pecl
/usr/local/Cellar/php/7.2.5/bin/pecl
/usr/local/Cellar/php/7.2.5/pecl
/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/5.6.36/bin/pecl
/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/5.6.36/pecl

Is the [email protected] install part of your path?

[craigcarnell]

no but I've added it to the path now

find /usr/local/Cellar/php* -name pecl

/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/7.1.17/bin/pecl
/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/7.1.17/pecl

pecl install mcrypt

Failed to download pecl/mcrypt within preferred state "stable", latest release is version 1.0.1, stability "snapshot", use "channel://pecl.php.net/mcrypt-1.0.1" to install
install failed

[SMillerDev]

Here's a post about installing mcrypt through pecl: https://forums.cpanel.net/threads/mcrypt-php-extension.617031/

[craigcarnell]

Thanks but that is for centos. I wish documentation existed for this, before mcrypt package was removed in the first place.

[SMillerDev]

Yes, and it works exactly the same way. There's more than enough documentation about this on the internet. It even says how to install it in the error message by the way.