Dusk: Issue with ext-pcntl

[lk77]

• Dusk Version:5.6.0
• Laravel Version: 6.4.1
• PHP Version: 7.3.1
• Database Driver & Version: mysql 5.7

Description:

A dependency has been added in 5.6.0 to ext-pcntl, and it's breaking everything, the extension needs to be added to the docker test image. Why such a change on a minor update ?
This type of changes should go to next major version 6.0 i think.

thanks.

[leecrosdale]

@lk77 was there a fix you found for this?

[lk77]

@leecrosdale i reverted to 5.5 for now due to another issue,
but you need to enable pcntl in php, for example for docker :

RUN docker-php-ext-install pcntl

[leecrosdale]

Ah ok, a couple of devs here are running windows, where PCNTL isn't available.

We ended up doing

composer install --ignore-platform-reqs

which seems to work for now!

[lk77]

yes, we had the same issue for windows.
Honestly i think this should be an optional dependency.

I reopen the issue, i had closed it, because we were able to install pcntl on docker, so it was not a big deal for us, but i realise that this issue is more wide than that.

[driesvints]

Hmm, that indeed seems to have broken Windows support. We'll try to reverse it later today.

[driesvints]

This was the PR btw: https://github.com/laravel/dusk/pull/682

[driesvints]

I sent in a PR here: https://github.com/laravel/dusk/pull/692

If anyone can verify that this works on Windows that'd be great.

[asbiin]

@driesvints I can confirm it "works" on Windows == I can install it without --ignore-platform-reqs, and it can run tests.