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

Answer 1

How about this one?

1. In ~/.bashrc, add: alias composer='php c:\\your\\path\\to\\composer.phar'
2. Restart cygwin or reload the bashrc by running source ~/.bashrc

Works for me using both Cygwin's native php.exe and XAMPP's Windows-specific one.