title: Laravel upgrade to 4.2 - mcrypt extension required
body: <p>I have problems when trying to update laravel 4.1 to 4.2.</p>
  
  <p>I started that project on ubuntu, then got a new macbook pro and it looks like I'm missing something.</p>
  
  <p>I'm using XAMPP 1.8.3</p>
  
  <p>When I</p>
  
  <pre><code>composer update
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I get the following error</p>
  
  <pre><code>Mcrypt PHP extension required.
  Script php artisan clear-compiled handling the post-update-cmd event returned with an error
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>After few googling, found homebrew, then it's easy</p>
  
  <pre><code>brew install mcrypt
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but I get the following warning</p>
  
  <pre><code>Warning: mcrypt-2.6.8 already installed
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any ideas?</p>