not working under Windows?

[swen100]

Hi,

i have installed all dependencies and packages as described (i can call php and protoc from commandline; installed all scripts via composer, ...)

But when i call
php .\vendor\bin\protobuf.bat --include-descriptors -i . -o ./src/ ./addressbook.proto
i only get the content of the bat-file in the console:

@ECHO OFF
SET BIN_TARGET=%~dp0/../protobuf-php/protobuf-plugin/bin/protobuf
php "%BIN_TARGET%" %*

What iam doing wrong?

[FabioBatSilva]

Not really focus on window right now.
If you are willing to sort out the problem and send a PR it will be appreciated.

Worst case scenario you should be able to generate the PHP files in a unix computer
And then use the php classes on windows.

[DrDelay]

Hi, I also tried (see kebabtent/pogoprotos-php#8) getting this to work on Windows.
The problem you describe is not the worst, you can call the script directly, without using the bat-file in vendor/bin, but then it just hangs doing nothing.
I attached a debugger to find it fails (hangs) here. I did some research, but didn't find anything concrete. I guess reading from stdin like that just doesn't work in a Windows environment (found something about missing readline-ext, don't know if it's relevant). It works fine on UNIX anyways, so compiling the protos there is an acceptable solution.

[FabioBatSilva]

Hi @DrDelay,

I think this is the issue : https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=34972
But is probably something that we could work around to get it to work on Windows.