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

This may be useful to someone:

On Windows 7, if you've installed Composer using curl, it can be found in similar path:

C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Composer

Answer 2

Install Composer

On Windows, you can use the Composer Windows Installer.

Answer 3

Well, now this question is a bit obsolete as there is now an official installer which "will install the latest Composer version and set up your PATH so that you can just call composer from any directory in your command line."

You can get it at : http://getcomposer.org/doc/00-intro.md#installation-windows

Answer 4

I use Composer-Setup.exe and it works fine. Just in case you need to know where is the composer.phar (to use with PhpStorm) :

C:\ProgramData\ComposerSetup\bin\composer.phar

Answer 5

I was having the same issue and when I checked the environment in Windows 7 it was pointing to c:\users\myname\appdata\composer\version\bin which didn't exists. the file was actually located in C:\ProgramData\ComposerSetup\bin Fixed the location in environment setting and it worked

Answer 6

Go to php.exe located folder.

C:\wamp\bin\php\php5.5.12\

open cmd there, and execute below command.

php -r "readfile('https://getcomposer.org/installer');" | php

composer.phar will be downloaded in same folder.

Create folder named composer in C:// drive (or anywhere you wish, for upcoming steps, remember the path).

move composer.phar file to C://composer folder.

Create composer.bat file in same folder with contents below

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

create file named composer without any extensions.

running command type NUL > composer in CMD will help to get it done quickly,

Open that file and place below contents inside it.

#!/bin/sh
dir=$(d=$(dirname "$0"); cd "$d" && pwd)
# see if we are running in cygwin by checking for cygpath program
if command -v 'cygpath' >/dev/null 2>&1; then
    # cygwin paths start with /cygdrive/ which will break windows PHP,
    # so we need to translate the dir path to windows format. However
    # we could be using cygwin PHP which does not require this, so we
    # test if the path to PHP starts with /cygdrive/ rather than /usr/bin.
    if [[ $(which php) == /cygdrive/* ]]; then
        dir=$(cygpath -m $dir);
    fi
fi
dir=$(echo $dir | sed 's/ /\ /g')
php "${dir}/composer.phar" $*

Save.

Now set path, So we can access composer from cmd.

• Show Desktop.

• Right Click My Computer shortcut in the desktop.

• Click Properties.

• You should see a section of control Panel - Control Panel\System and Security\System.

• Click Advanced System Settings on the Left menu.

• Click Environment Variables towards the bottom of the window.

• Select PATH in the user variables list.

• Append your PHP Path (C:\composer) to your PATH variable, separated from the already existing string by a semi colon.

• Click OK

Restart your machine.

Or, restart explorer only using below command in CMD.

taskkill /f /IM explorer.exe
start explorer.exe
exit

Original Article with screenshots here : http://aslamise.blogspot.com/2015/07/installing-composer-manually-in-windows-7-using-cmd.html