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 had the same problem. After reading the final instruction from composer installer, it says that the $PATH variable should be reloaded. I rebooted my computer and then linked the Composer bin to /usr/local/bin.

First locate the composer bin : /cygdrive/c/ProgramData/ComposerSetup/bin/composer

Then according to Seldaek answer, after trying a non-working symlink, I did :

nano /usr/local/bin/composer

#!/bin/sh
/cygdrive/c/ProgramData/ComposerSetup/bin/composer $@

chmod +x /usr/local/bin/composer

And it's working.