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

Getting composer to work globally inside Cygwin is a pain in the butt...

The solutions I have come up with:

1. Don't use it globally. If you are using the PHP CLI from a Windows installation, it won't recognize the Linux paths that Cygwin uses.

   What I have done is put it in the base directory of all the projects I use composer with, and do ../composer.phar to run it.

   It works fine this way, and it's almost globally available...

2. Download, and compile your own PHP binaries within Cygwin... Yea, kind of a overkill.