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

What I did (very simple):

• Install Composer normally with the Windows installer
• Open a Cygwin console an type composer you will see something like Could not open input file: /c/route/to/your/composer/installation/bin
• Create an alias composer='composer.bat' on your bash profile or bashrc or whatever
• Done

I'm running Windows 8.1