Is there any way to install Composer globally on Windows

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I ve read the global installation documentation for Composer  but it s for  nix systems only     curl -s https   getcomposer org installer   php sudo mv composer phar  usr local bin composer   I would be such happy doing the same on Windows  that s the OS of my development machine  I would be able to run  composer update   From an arbitrary folder where composer json exists  Interpreter php exe is already in PATH variable   Any clue

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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

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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

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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

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Install Composer      On Windows  you can use the Composer Windows Installer

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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  lt username gt  AppData Roaming Composer

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Start   Computer   Properties   Change Settings   Advanced   Environment Variables   PATH   Edit  add this string  without     at the end of line   C   lt path to php folder gt  php5 5 3     open cmd and type composer thats it  -

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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

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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

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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

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you can install it using this command line    echo  php    dp0composer phar      gt  composer bat

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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

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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

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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  gt  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   amp  amp  pwd    see if we are running in cygwin by checking for cygpath program if command -v  cygpath   gt  dev null 2 gt  amp 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

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