Bref: [Windows] "vendor/bin/bref init" does not create files on Windows 10

[zemiacsik]

Hi,
when I try to initialize project by running "vendor/bin/bref init" on win10, it does not create "index.php" nor "serverless.yml" files.
Is it suppose to work on win10 or is there some workaround?
Thank you.

[mnapoli]

Thank you for the report. What does the output of the command show in the terminal?

I don't have Windows to help debug, if you can you can see the code that runs here:

https://github.com/brefphp/bref/blob/7361a9c0f1c0eb5a8619fe49195d6e97be62c6aa/bref#L28-L88

If you see anything that doesn't work on Windows let us know.

[zemiacsik]

The output is:

So it looks like it takes the first "bref" (unix) file from "vendor/bin" and not the Windows Batch File.

Although when I try to run "vendor/bref/bref/bref init" it looks like it is doing fine, I will try to have a look at it.

[mnapoli]

🤔 that doesn't look right, this doesn't look like the actual output of vendor/bin/bref init right?

[zemiacsik]

No, it is just an echo of first "bref" file in "vendor/bin":

I think win is not able to execute it so it just returns its content.
In this case, the second file "bref.bat" should be probably executed because of the win environment.

[mnapoli]

@zemiacsik yes it seems vendor/bin/bref.bat should be used on Windows, can you confirm that this works?

[zemiacsik]

@mnapoli Yes, bref.bat worked fine on Win10.

[mnapoli]

Good to know thanks.

Then in the documentation we can add a note to encourage Windows users to use bref.bat instead.

[aagarwal8]

On Win 10 Pro, this works as well
C:>"vendor/bin/bref" init