How can I install mcrypt under PHP7? Laravel needs it

Question

Since Laravel4 requires mcrypt extension, and PHP7 doesn\'t seem to have mcrypt extension, is there any workaround for this to work?

Answer 1

do like this:

1. wget http://jp2.php.net/distributions/php-7.0.3.tar.gz
2. tar zxf php-7.0.3.tar.gz
3. cd php-7.0.3/ext/mcrypt
4. /php7-path/bin/phpize (when error such as configure: error: mcrypt.h not found. Please reinstall libmcrypt run apt-get install libmcrypt-dev)
5. ./configure --with-php-config=/php7-path/bin/php-config
6. (sudo) make && make install .this will install the mcrypt.so in php-7.0.3/ext/mcrypt/modules
7. cp to the /usr/lib/php/20151012/ what is the shared extensions dir
8. create a mcrypt.ini in /etc/php/mods-available/ write as extension=mcrypt.so
9. create link to this such as sudo ln -s /etc/php/mods-available/mcrypt.ini 20-mcrypt.ini in /etc/php/7.0/fpm/conf.d
10. create link to this such as sudo ln -s /etc/php/mods-available/mcrypt.ini 20-mcrypt.ini in /etc/php/7.0/cli/conf.d
11. sudo service nginx restart
12. sudo service php7.0-fpm restart
13. yes it is.