Unhandled 'error' event

[66beta]

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Windows 7 32bit with PowerShell. yo webapp works fine.

PowerShell> yo laravel:install C:\Users\66beta\Desktop\myo
[?] Are you sure about cleaning and installing in ./?: Yes
events.js:72
        throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
              ^
Error: spawn ENOENT
    at errnoException (child_process.js:980:11)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:771:34)

[Freyskeyd]

Hey,

This version isn't fully compatible with windows. Did you have "Composer" command line tool installed?

[66beta]

composer works fine.

[Freyskeyd]

Hey,

Did you have this error again with last release?

Thank's

[teeli]

I'm getting a similar error on Windows 8. I have composer installed and it works fine (and laravel works fine iwth it)

E:\Projects\test\yeoman\laravel>yo laravel                                                             

   ____                                                                                                
   \   \                   _____________________                                                       
    \   \      ____       |  Laravel tools      |                                                      
     \   \     \   \      |                     |                                                      
      \___\_____\___\     |_____________________|                                                      
            \     \                                                                                    
             \_____\                                                                                   
[?] What would you like to do? Install a new Laravel                                                   
[?] Where to install? ./                                                                               
[?] Are you sure about cleaning and installing in ./?: Yes                                             
     info Start cleaning directory (./)                                                                
     info Cleaning done                                                                                
     info Check composer install                                                                       

events.js:72                                                                                           
        throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event                                                           
              ^                                                                                        
Error: spawn ENOENT                                                                                    
    at errnoException (child_process.js:980:11)                                                        
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:771:34)                                   

E:\Projects\test\yeoman\laravel>                                                                       

[Freyskeyd]

hey,

I think it's a windows PATH problem.

#child_process.spawn ignores PATHEXT on Windows = https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/2318

[isimmons]

Yeah looks like that is the guilty culprit since composer is a .bat file on windows.I don't know much about node but would have thought the node devs could fix that easily until reading through all those issues.

Maybe add a note to the readme for now that it won't work on windows so we don't install it and then have to uninstall it because it can't work?

Cool thing is it's no big deal to install Laravel via command line as normal, then cd into the public dir and use yo to install webapp, backbone, angular or what ever. Those all seem to work fine for me and I guess it's because none of them are having to run a bat file.

[isimmons]

@Freyskeyd On windows 7 here. Just worked around this.

1. downloaded bat to exe converter http://www.f2ko.de/programs.php?lang=en&pid=b2e
2. made backup copy of composer.bat
3. changed in composer.bat "%~dp0composer.phar" to "C:\ProgramData\Composer\bin\composer.phar" Won't work with "%~dp0" needs full path and this is the default if composer is installed with the windows installer

I tried other free converters but this is the only one that made a working exe. I also tested the exe with the regular composer create-project laravel/laravel and self-update commands and all seems to be working correctly.

So to be sure, at the moment this generator doesn't actually install any grunt or bower right? It installed laravel just fine with the above fix but then stopped after that.

[clearbucketLabs]

Darn, same issue here. i guess i'll use a linux VM for this stuff for now anyway...

[jeroenherczeg]

I have the same issue on Win7 But will be switching to linux soon.

[brunowego]

I have the same issue on Win8.1

[Freyskeyd]

I don't have any WinX to work on this issue.

I think it's a node issue.

[jamesblackwell]

Just got this exact error on Mac

[Freyskeyd]

Can you tell me some informations:

• osx version
• node version

Thank's

Le 26 janv. 2014 à 01:15, James Blackwell [email protected] a écrit :

Just got this exact error on Mac

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub.

[Sunny-fr]

Hi Simon, I've the same exact issue using osx : here's my setup osx : 10.9.1 node : v0.10.11 (and i also tried on v0.10.25)

Thanks a lot

[Freyskeyd]

Okey,

You get it when you define a relative path to the install?

Can you post the full command output?

Thank's

[Sunny-fr]

yeah, of course : I tried both full path, relative path :

MacBook-Pro-de-Sunny:laravel sunny$ node --version
v0.10.25
MacBook-Pro-de-Sunny:laravel sunny$ yo laravel

   ____
   \   \                   _____________________
    \   \      ____       |  Laravel tools      |
     \   \     \   \      |                     |
      \___\_____\___\     |_____________________|
            \     \
             \_____\
[?] What would you like to do? Install a new Laravel
[?] Where to install? ./
[?] Are you sure about cleaning and installing in ./?: Yes
     info Start cleaning directory (./)
     info Cleaning done
     info Check composer install

events.js:72
        throw er; // Unhandled 'error' event
              ^
Error: spawn ENOENT
    at errnoException (child_process.js:988:11)
    at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:779:34)

[Freyskeyd]

Mmmh ok i reproduce when composer is not install globaly

[Sunny-fr]

I reinstalled composer (and double checking -g args :) ) but i've got still the same issue.:(

[Freyskeyd]

Ok, when you:

$ composer

What are you seeing?

[Sunny-fr]

my bad, composer seems missing ! (I installed it using npm )

-bash: composer: command not found

[Freyskeyd]

To install a correct composer you need to use:

curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php
$ mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer

[Sunny-fr]

Thanks a lot for your time, everything works fine now !

[?] What would you like to do? Install a new Laravel
[?] Where to install? ./
[?] Are you sure about cleaning and installing in ./?: Yes
     info Start cleaning directory (./)
     info Cleaning done
     info Check composer install
     info Composer has been found

[Freyskeyd]

Nop, i think this issue is due to a misunderstanding of composer instalation.

[Freyskeyd]

You can contribute if you want !

[Sunny-fr]

Thank you :) I'm quite new to yeoman :) as soon as i'll get into it, it would be a pleasure :)

//bonne soirée !

[jamesblackwell]

Sorry for the slow reply! I just renamed composer.phar to composer and it all works. Silly mistake as always, thanks for your help.

[vinizinmoraes]

Created a pull request (https://github.com/Freyskeyd/generator-laravel/pull/11) to fix this issue on Windows.

[indvinoth]

I am getting the same error on Windows 8, with working composer installation. Can someone please help me out?