I'm in PHP 7.1.25 and mcrypt is the current extension used and mcrypt will be deprecated in PHP 7.2 and Libsodium will be added to the core extensions in PHP 7.2
Now I would need to try installing libsodium in PHP 7.1 and see how it works, Followed this https://lukasmestan.com/install-libsodium-extension-in-php7 but the installation failed. Updated PECL package as well. See the error below!
Any help would be really appreciated. Thanks in Advance!
$ sudo pecl install -f libsodium
downloading libsodium-2.0.20.tgz ...
Starting to download libsodium-2.0.20.tgz (28,504 bytes)
.........done: 28,504 bytes
4 source files, building
running: phpize
Configuring for:
PHP Api Version: 20160303
Zend Module Api No: 20160303
Zend Extension Api No: 320160303
building in /tmp/pear/temp/pear-build-rootsL5uMO/libsodium-2.0.20
running: /tmp/pear/temp/libsodium/configure --with-php-config=/usr/bin/php-config
checking for grep that handles long lines and -e... /bin/grep
checking for egrep... /bin/grep -E
checking for a sed that does not truncate output... /bin/sed
checking for cc... cc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether cc accepts -g... yes
checking for cc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking how to run the C preprocessor... cc -E
checking for icc... no
checking for suncc... no
checking whether cc understands -c and -o together... yes
checking for system library directory... lib
checking if compiler supports -R... no
checking if compiler supports -Wl,-rpath,... yes
checking build system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking host system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking target system type... x86_64-pc-linux-gnu
checking for PHP prefix... /usr
checking for PHP includes... -I/usr/include/php/20160303 -I/usr/include/php/20160303/main -I/usr/include/php/20160303/TSRM -I/usr/include/php/20160303/Zend -I/usr/include/php/20160303/ext -I/usr/include/php/20160303/ext/date/lib
checking for PHP extension directory... /usr/lib/php/20160303
checking for PHP installed headers prefix... /usr/include/php/20160303
checking if debug is enabled... no
checking if zts is enabled... no
checking for re2c... no
configure: WARNING: You will need re2c 0.13.4 or later if you want to regenerate PHP parsers.
checking for gawk... gawk
checking for sodium support... yes, shared
checking for pkg-config... no
checking for libsodium... configure: error: Please install libsodium - See https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium
ERROR: `/tmp/pear/temp/libsodium/configure --with-php-config=/usr/bin/php-config' failed
@VenkateshLB You have to install the libsodium provided by your linux distribution first.
CentOS 7:
yum install libsodium libsodium-devel
Ubuntu 18.04:
apt install libsodium libsodium-dev
When installed, execute the PECL command.