Is there any way to install Composer globally on Windows?

Question

I\'ve read the global installation documentation for Composer, but it\'s for *nix systems only:

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Answer 1

sorry to dig this up, I just want to share my idea, the easy way for me is to rename composer.phar to composer.bat and put it into my PATH.

Answer 2

Unfortunately, all the good answers here didn't work for me. So after installing composer on windows 10, I just had to set system variable in environment variables and it worked.

Answer 3

you can install it using this command line

 echo @php "%~dp0composer.phar" %* > composer.bat

Answer 4

An alternative variant (see Lusitanian answer) is to register .phar files as executable on your system, exemplary phar.reg file:

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.phar]
@="phar_auto_file"

[HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\phar_auto_file\shell\open\command]
@="\"c:\\PROGRA~1\\php\\php.exe\" \"%1\" %*"

Just replace the path to php.exe to your PHP executable. You can then also extend the %PATHEXT% commandline variable with .PHAR which will allow you to type composer instead of composer.phar as long as composer.phar is inside the %Path%.

Answer 5

Sure. Just put composer.phar somewhere like C:\php\composer.phar, then make a batch file somewhere within the PATH called composer.bat which does the following:

@ECHO OFF
php "%~dp0composer.phar" %*

The "%*" repeats all of the arguments passed to the shell script.

Then you can run around doing composer update all ya want!

Answer 6

A bit more generic if you put the batch in the same folder as composer.phar:

@ECHO OFF
SET SUBDIR=%~dp0
php %SUBDIR%/composer.phar %*

I'd write it as a comment, but code isn't avail there