PHP mcrypt installing and setting up laravel environment issues

Question

I am using Mac OS X Lion 10.7.5 and I want to clear one thing I do not want to use XAMPP, MAMP anymore.

So I enabled apache, php and installed mysql following this link. This work well. Then I downloaded laravel and installed it following this link. I copied laravel folder inside Sites folder which I created according to first link tutorial. Now when I click on public folder inside laravel folder it gives me following error

Unhandled Exception

Message:

Call to undefined function Laravel\mcrypt_create_iv()
Location:

/Users/zafarsaleem/Sites/learning-laravel/laravel/crypter.php on line 36

Then checked whether mcrypts are installed in phpinfo(). They are not there. To install mcrypt I followed this link. It worked until when I followed to PHP Extension title. When I downloaded PHP 5.3.8 is now the default since Mac OS X 10.7.3 unpacked and when I issue phpize command it gives me this error

Cannot find config.m4. 
Make sure that you run '/usr/bin/phpize' in the top level source directory of the module

What does this top level source directory of the module means? How can I make mcrypt install properly to make laravel work? Please help.

Answer 1

You will need to install Xcode and the command line tools extra package within Xcode, for then to install mcrypt

For more details, read this http://www.coolestguyplanettech.com/how-to-install-mcrypt-for-php-on-mac-osx-lion-10-7-development-server/