[FIXED] Mcrypt with Mamp Pro on Mac OS X Yosemite 10.10

Issue

After the Yosemite update yesterday, something is messed up with the Mcrypt extension. The PHP based artistan CLI of the Laravel framework returns:

Mcrypt PHP extension required.

The PATH variable seems to be correct. Where is the misconfig? Before the update everything worked fine.

++++ Configs ++++

Output of 'which php':

/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.6.1/bin/php

'php -v':

PHP 5.6.1 (cli) (built: Oct 13 2014 18:41:35) Copyright (c) 1997-2014 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.6.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2014 Zend Technologies

Content of .bash_profile:

export EDITOR=nano export PATH=/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/X11/bin:/usr/texbin:/usr/local/mysql/bin export PATH=/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.6.1/bin:$PATH

phpinfo():

MAMP PRO Version:

3.0.7.1

UPDATE:

Mamp-log says for every extension enabled in php.ini:

PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.6.1/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20121212/mcrypt.so' - dlopen(/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.6.1/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20121212/mcrypt.so, 9): image not found in Unknown on line 0

Solution

I've contacted MAMP support, and this is what they responded.

Hi,

Our php.ini file is messed up for 5.6.1. Go to your template files and change this line

/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.6.1 ....

to

/Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.6.1/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20131226

We will have a full fix in a few days. You can also just downgrade to php 5.5. in the meantime.

Answered By - Nicolas Widart