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

I think what might work is to build a proxy instead:

• Put composer.phar in /usr/local/bin/composer.phar

• Create a bash proxy as /usr/local/bin/composer with the following:

  #!/bin/sh
  c:/path/to/php c:/path/to/composer.phar $@
  

• chmod +x /usr/local/bin/composer