Hi all,

I have a question.
A friend of mine has installed a fresh installation of Slackware 14.2.
At the moment I was busy installing Magento 2 on it but I got the message I was missing Mcrypt. So.. I installed it via this link https://slackware.pkgs.org/14.2/slac...lonly.txz.html

Package was installed restarted Apache but still it wasn't showing any mcrypt extension in phpinfo.

What am I doing wrong?

Br,

Steve

the mcrypt extension is already built-in in slackware 14.2's php via the provided libmcrypt package, you don't need an additional mcrypt one: just create an info.php file in your DocumentRoot, paste this content
and then load it in the browser (here I assume the address of the server is "localhost")
with the default /etc/php.ini you should see the mcrypt extension as enabled.

if you don't maybe you are missing some dependencies: is that a full installation of Slackware?

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Hi Ponce,

Thanks for the reply.

It's a full install of Slackware 14.2.
PHP 7.2

I checked the php info before I installed the package. It wasn't active so I assumed it wasn't installed.

Where can I check for the relevant dependencies?

Thanks in advance,

Br,

Stevan

php 7.2 is not included in slackware 14.2: where have you installed it from?

try to build it from source using the script from current

ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackwar.../source/n/php/

Slackware doesn't offer a way of resolving dependencies, it's basically up to you if you choose to do a partial installation.

As far as I know the mcrypt support was removed by PHP 7 developers long time ago.

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Hi zk1234,

Yes, that's what I read on the internet too and that was my reason to install it.
The package has been installed but I don't see any Mcrypt values in php info.

After installing the package from https://slackware.pkgs.org/14.2/slac...lonly.txz.html what do I need to do
to activate the package?

Br,

Steve

like zk1234 wrote, php devs removed mcrypt support from php-7.2 and substituted it with libsodium

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/mcrypt-viking-funeral
https://wiki.php.net/rfc/libsodium

if you really want it (read the first link above for why is not a good idea) you don't need mcrypt at all but libmcrypt already in Slackware and you can install via PECL with "pecl install mcrypt-1.0.2".

but consider that magento supports php-7.2 just fine from version 2.3.x, so it shouldn't need the mcrypt extension at all.

Hi Ponce,

First of all, Happy Easter to all.

Thanks for the reply again.

At the moment I'm developing a Magento 2.2.7 webshop and it still needs Mcrypt.
I will look into the libsodium ;-)

You might amaze yourself when it comes to Magento 2.3.x and it's predecessors.
Everytime they tell you bugs will be fixed or is so and so compatible it's not.

The reason because I still work with M2 is because I hope they can get a good enough version on the market we all can work with.
Up until now I'm not impressed with it. My background is M1, Wordpress and Joomla.

Thank you so much for looking into this.

I'll let you know if it works.

Btw, how can I uninstall the other Mcrypt package?

Br,

Steve