Composer create-project not working on Windows

[AIC-BV]

Winter CMS Build

dev-develop

PHP Version

8.1

Database engine

MySQL/MariaDB

Plugins installed

No response

Issue description

I am trying to set up a new sideproject using the following command from the WinterCMS website:
composer create-project wintercms/winter my-project

This works untill the command runs php artisan winter:install
There is no option to select a database type and errors will be spammed untill it crashes.

Operation System: Windows
PHP version: PHP 8.2.11 (cli) (built: Sep 26 2023 15:25:14) (NTS Visual C++ 2019 x64)

Steps to replicate

composer create-project wintercms/winter my-project

Workaround

No response

[LukeTowers]

Do you have SQLite support on your environment?

[LukeTowers]

What OS are you using?

[AIC-BV]

What OS are you using?

Windows

[AIC-BV]

Do you have SQLite support on your environment?

I don't think so
(But I have no idea. Don't find anything about "Hosting provider + SQLite" when I quickly google it)

[LukeTowers]

You're paying for a remote server that's running Windows? Windows is really only supported for local development, running it as a production server for a PHP application is a bit wild...

[damsfx]

@AIC-BV I had the same problem with Windows Os.
WinterCMS is installed without any user interaction.
The result is an installation with default values and no idea of the password given to the site administrator.

I'm always forced to run a second installation with the --force option (php artisan winter:install --force).

It seems that composer on Windows can't run interactive commands.
See: #1242 (comment)

So what have been put in place to simplify WinterCMS installation for Linux and Mac Os users, complicates it for the minority of Windows users.

[AIC-BV]

You're paying for a remote server that's running Windows? Windows is really only supported for local development, running it as a production server for a PHP application is a bit wild...

Oh no the remote server is Linux
But my device is Windows and I can't set it up using composer create-project wintercms/winter my-project

[AIC-BV]

It seems that composer on Windows can't run interactive commands. See: #1242 (comment)

You are right, manually doing the php artisan winter:install does work.
I don't need the --force flag because the automatic install doesn't do anything anyways it just crashes instantly

[LukeTowers]

@damsfx does the create-project command still not work for you even after the work done in those related PRs?

Also for @AIC-BV & @damsfx, what are you using to run PHP on Windows? Do you have WSL or are you just manually installing it or are you using something else entirely?

[AIC-BV]

If I recall it correctly, you just install some things
https://www.php.net/downloads.php
https://getcomposer.org/

and then in cmdline/powershell I run php artisan serve in the root of the Winter project

I used to run XAMPP but its seems to be no longer needed (I connect to a hosted DB instead of a local one)

[damsfx]

@LukeTowers

For my Windows computers, I have both WSL and standalone PHP.
No errors occurs when running create project from WSL.

Using composer create-project wintercms/winter:dev-develop test-composer-install :

• winter:install : ✅, no user interactions
• winter:env : ✅
• winter:mirror public --relative : ❌

> @php artisan winter:mirror public --relative
Destination: P:\_Sites\_Labs\test-composer-install\public
 - Mirroring: .htaccess

In WinterMirror.php line 208:

  symlink(): Permission denied


Script @php artisan winter:mirror public --relative handling the post-create-project-cmd event returned with error code 1

[LukeTowers]

@damsfx do you have this commit locally? 4a31245