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

PHP7 contains mcrypt extension internally (source-path/ext/mcrypt/). But it depends on Libmcrypt soft.

Step 1.

Download libmcrypt-x.x.tar.gz from http://mcrypt.sourceforge.net/ and build it.

cd libmcrypt-x.x
./configure
make
make install

Step 2.

Rebuild PHP7 from source and add --with-mcrypt option.

./configure ... --with-mcrypt

Other way without rebuilding PHP7

cd php7-source-path/ext/mcrypt/
/php7-path/bin/phpize
./configure --with-php-config=/php7-path/bin/php-config
make && make install
echo "extension=mcrypt.so" >> /php7-path/ext/php.ini

Restart php