Solution to "Unable to load mcrypt.so"

[clarkphp]

If you are seeing the following error running PHP CLI under OSX with Zend Server, especially after an operating system upgrade:

PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library '/usr/local/zend/lib/php_extensions/mcrypt.so' - dlopen(/usr/local/zend/lib/php_extensions/mcrypt.so, 9): Library not loaded: /usr/lib/libltdl.3.dylib

then all you need to do the fix the problem is create a symlink to the .dylib file as follows:

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sudo ln -s /usr/local/zend/lib/libltdl.3.dylib /usr/lib/libltdl.3.dylib

Zend includes both the .so and .dylib files, you just need to get OSX to see the .dylib file by creating the symlink.