Installing PEAR and PHPUnit with xampp

Question

I am trying to get PHPUnit up and running the following are the steps I am currently following:

### Install new PEAR Version needed for PHPUnit 3.X
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Answer 1

this is a solution for a similar problem install propel orm in xampp. By default, pear tries install in c:\php\pear\data, and this folder don't exists, because pear is in c:\xampp\php\pear.

Show pear configutarion:

pear config-show
...
pear config-get data_dir
c:\php\pear\data

Change the pear configuration to:

pear config-set data_dir c:\xampp\php\pear\data

i hope this is useful ;)

Answer 2

This may help follow the below link: http://forum.kohanaframework.org/discussion/7346/installing-phpunit-on-windows-xampp/p1

1. Open a command prompt and go to C:\xampp\php
2. Type "pear update-channels" (updates channel definitions)
3. Type "pear upgrade" (upgrades all existing packages and pear)
4. Type "pear channel-discover components.ez.no" (this is needed for PHPUnit)
5. Type "pear channel-discover pear.symfony-project.com" (also needed by PHPUnit)
6. Type "pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de" (This IS phpunit)
7. Type "pear install --alldeps phpunit/PHPUnit" (installs PHPUnit and all dependencies)

Answer 3

You might want to add

• pear clear-cache to clear the REST/XML-RPC cache and
• pear config-set preferred_state beta to set the preferred package state to beta

This results in

php go-pear.phar
pear clear-cache 
pear update-channels
pear upgrade --alldeps -f 
pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de
pear channel-discover pear.symfony-project.com
pear channel-discover components.ez.no
pear config-set preferred_state beta
pear install --onlyreqdeps phpunit/PHPUnit

Answer 4

If you are on Widows 8, make sure you opened a command window as administrator, otherwise dir creation will be silently rejected by the OS !

Answer 5

I was able to get pear (and subsequently, phpunit) working by creating a symlink in C:\ that points to the xamp php installation directory. That makes everything that expects php to be in C:\php happy, while not breaking anything that expected php to be in xampp:

In cmd.exe, I typed:

C:\Windows>cd \
C:\>junction php C:\path\to\xampp\php

I updated my php.ini to use C:\php as the location for php. I then installed pear (as a local installation, not system). Once pear was installed, installing phpunit was simple:

C:\>pear channel-discover components.ez.no
C:\>pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de
C:\>pear channel-discover pear.symfony-project.com

And then finally,

C:\>pear install --alldeps phpunit/PHPUnit

Answer 6

To install in D:\xampp\php, set the following directory paths using pear config-set command

D:
cd D:\xampp\php
pear config-set doc_dir d:\xampp\php\pear\docs
pear config-set cfg_dir d:\xampp\php\pear\cfg
pear config-set data_dir d:\xampp\php\pear\data
pear config-set cache_dir d:\xampp\php\pear\cache
pear config-set download_dir d:\xampp\php\pear\download
pear config-set temp_dir d:\xampp\php\pear\temp
pear config-set test_dir d:\xampp\php\pear\tests
pear config-set www_dir d:\xampp\php\pear\www