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Php versions – Error while installing PHP 7.1 for Mac (with Homebrew)

I’m trying to install PHP 7.1 with Homebrew.

According to the Homebrew site I should type

brew install exolnet/deprecated/[email protected]

and all I get is

configure: error: Please reinstall the iconv library.

Reinstall does not help. Current version libiconv is 1.16.

How fix this error?

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  1. 0

    Try with the following 

    brew install openldap libiconv
brew tap exolnet/homebrew-deprecated
brew install [email protected]

    For any more details, check this guide

    https://getgrav.org/blog/macos-catalina-apache-multiple-php-versions

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  2. 0

    I had issues with this:

    dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/opt/icu4c/lib/libicui18n.64.dylib
  Referenced from: /usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/7.1.33/bin/php
  Reason: image not found

    Solution for me was to first download https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/a806a621ed3722fb580a58000fb274a2f2d86a6d/Formula/icu4c.rb manually (since installing formula directly renders the error Calling Installation of icu4c from a GitHub commit URL is disabled!) and then:

    $ brew reinstall icu4c.rb

    Next, copy the .dylib files from the older icu4c version somewhere temporary:

    $ mkdir ~/temp
$ cp /usr/local/Cellar/icu4c/64.4/lib/*.dylib ~/temp

    Then, reinstall icu4c:

    $ brew reinstall icu4c

    Run php 7.1 and copy each necessary .dylib file back to your current icu4c lib folder, accordingly, until php 7.1 renders no errors.

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  3. 0

    Icu4c reinstallation made me force reinstall PHP8, which broke the purpose for me. So, I have found some new repositories where you don’t need to hassle with this icu4c stuff at all:

    brew install shivammathur/php/[email protected]
brew install shivammathur/php/[email protected]
brew install shivammathur/php/[email protected]
brew install shivammathur/php/[email protected]
brew install shivammathur/php/[email protected]
brew install shivammathur/php/[email protected]
brew install shivammathur/php/[email protected]
brew install shivammathur/php/[email protected]
brew install shivammathur/php/[email protected]
brew install shivammathur/php/[email protected]

    First, delete all php installations with a command something like brew uninstall "php*" and brew unlink [email protected]

    You may also need to untap other taps. I had to run

    brew untap exolnet/deprecated

    to install properly.

    Then, if you want, delete the /usr/local/etc/php folder

    then install one of the packages I’ve linked above.

    Worked Nicely for PHP 7.1:

    ➜  ~ php -v
PHP 7.1.33 (cli) (built: Dec  1 2020 01:14:43) ( NTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2018 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.1.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2018 Zend Technologies
    with Zend OPcache v7.1.33, Copyright (c) 1999-2018, by Zend Technologies

    You can also quickly switch between php versions with a command like:

    brew unlink php && brew link --overwrite --force [email protected]

    etc.

    The GitHub repository: https://github.com/shivammathur/homebrew-php

    The source where I found these packages: here.

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  4. 0

    This worked for me on Big Sur:

    brew tap shivammathur/homebrew-php
brew install shivammathur/php/[email protected]
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