title: libmcrypt on Solaris 10 for SPARC link: https://onemoretech.wordpress.com/2009/07/23/libmcrypt-on-solaris-10-for-sparc/ author: lembobro description: post_id: 276 created: 2009/07/23 20:41:44 created_gmt: 2009/07/23 20:41:44 comment_status: open post_name: libmcrypt-on-solaris-10-for-sparc status: publish post_type: post

libmcrypt on Solaris 10 for SPARC

[Mcrypt](http://mcrypt.sourceforge.net/) is intended as a replacement for the old crypt package and command. The companion library that provides all the functions is libmcrypt.

Mcrypt and libmcrypt don’t ship with any O/S distributions I know of, and they’re not required by many applications, so you could spend an entire career as a sysadmin and never have to install them. There are rpm packages for Red Hat Linux based distros available from a couple of places, including rpmforge.

I needed to get this installed on a SPARC box running Sun Solaris 10 for use by a php application. The key to making it happen was in specifying “–enable-dynamic-loading” during configuration of libmcrypt:

./configure --enable-dynamic-loading

After that it was just a matter of make, make check and make install.

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