libsodium requirement issue

[sarfarazsavvy]

Hello Community,
we are facing issue, this package requires libsodium previously ext-libsodium was available to install in php 7.2 but in php 7.4 libsodium is not installing. is there any way to ignore libsodium is there any alternative way.

[SvenRtbg]

Libsodium is supposed to be bundled with PHP since 7.2, so you have to fix the issue with whatever your PHP provider has done to make it a problem. The extension provides modern cryptographic functions and is essential to this library. -- Viele Grüße Sven Rautenberg

[lcobucci]

@sarfarazsavvy you can use composer's --ignore-platform-req=ext-sodium (https://getcomposer.org/doc/03-cli.md#install-i) and check if you can run things but you'd essentially be on your own.

The recommended approach is to have the extension installed (that depends on the OS you have).

[donatj]

@lcobucci - does https://github.com/lcobucci/jwt/blob/4.2.x/src/SodiumBase64Polyfill.php not polyfill sodium? Is it necessary as a requirement?

[lcobucci]

The polyfill was introduced because of things we can't require via composer (#665).

The plan is to eventually be able to remove the polyfill and only rely on the extension.