Composer & Cygwin

Question

Composer doesn't run correctly in Cygwin if you try to install it "globally".

Putting composer.phar into /usr/local/bin/composer, then trying to run it will result in the error:

Could not open input file: /usr/local/bin/composer 

Answer 1

Just tripped over the same problem and found a solution. Posting it here, just in case I'll ever have to look it up again.

1. Set up a bin directory right under /home/my-username:

   cd ~ mkdir bin 

2. Move the composer.phar (or any other of those nifty new PHP imps that are on the rise) into the ~/bindirectory and make sure to set it's execution bit:

   # Notice how I got rid of the superfluous `.phar` extension mv /path/to/composer.phar ~/bin/composer chmod +x ~/bin/composer 

3. Tell cygwin to include your ~/bin directory in the search path:

   Open up the file ~/.bash_profile and uncomment the following paragraph ...

   # Set PATH so it includes user's private bin if it exists if [ -d "${HOME}/bin" ] ; then   PATH="${HOME}/bin:${PATH}" fi 

4. Now, for the most important part:

   A wrapper script that helps Win's native PHP resolve Unix style paths (which is causing the problem after all as Windows doesn't know how to handle /cygdrive/... paths).

   cd ~/bin touch php chmod +x php 

   After editing the wrapper script ~/bin/php should read:

   #!/bin/bash  # e.g. php="/cygdrive/c/Program Files (x86)/php/php.exe" php="/path/to/php.exe"  for ((n=1; n <= $#; n++)); do     if [ -e "${!n}" ]; then         # Converts Unix style paths to Windows equivalents         path="$(cygpath --mixed ${!n} | xargs)"          case 1 in             $(( n == 1 )) )                 set -- "$path" "${@:$(($n+1))}";;             $(( n < $# )) )                 set -- "${@:1:$((n-1))}" "$path" ${@:$((n+1)):$#};;             *)                 set -- "${@:1:$(($#-1))}" "$path";;         esac     fi done  "$php" "$@" 

5. Now restart your shell and it should correctly invoke the PHP interpreter whenever it stumbles upon a #!/usr/bin/env php shebang. Simply issue a:

   composer --help