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
For PHP 7.3, I installed mcrypt-1.0.2 as it supports PHP>=7.2 and PHP<=7.4
brew install mcrypt
pecl install mcrypt-1.0.2
I use Mojave and PHP 7.3. This works for me.
I didn't need to edit my php.ini, pecl did it automatically