Horizon: Laravel Horizon with XAMPP

[ghost]

Hi,
I've installed a new Laravel with XAMPP 7.1.9 (PHP 7.1.9) and get following error. 'Could not find package laravel/horizon at any version matching your PHP version 7.0.9.0'

How I can get Laravel Horizion if phpinfo says too that I have PHP Version 7.1.9?

[themsaid]

check the php version of your php-cli .. the one in phpinfo() is the one for php-fpm.

I'm not familiar with XAMPP to give more details, sorry :)

[ghost]

the composer was guilty due to an older version of xampp (windows) but now horizon wants to have something different.

Problem 1
- laravel/horizon v1.0.4 requires ext-pcntl * -> the requested PHP extension pcntl is missing from your system.
- laravel/horizon v1.0.3 requires ext-pcntl * -> the requested PHP extension pcntl is missing from your system.
- laravel/horizon v1.0.2 requires ext-pcntl * -> the requested PHP extension pcntl is missing from your system.
- laravel/horizon v1.0.1 requires ext-pcntl * -> the requested PHP extension pcntl is missing from your system.
- laravel/horizon v1.0.0 requires ext-pcntl * -> the requested PHP extension pcntl is missing from your system.
- Installation request for laravel/horizon ^1.0 -> satisfiable by laravel/horizon[v1.0.0, v1.0.1, v1.0.2, v1.0.3, v1.0.4].

[danieluyo]

Check you PHP-CLI version

XAMPP its a web server solution stack only... ¿Why not trying Homested or Valet ... or MAMP 4?

[PixellUp]

pcntl extension is not supported on Windows. (based on your XAMPP information)

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[ghost]

if i understand it right then is horizon not usable on windows? i mean i'm not really interesting to change my whole development environment just for a test of horizon and in case of a good usabilty for me, to expand horizon on different development domains

[chrisbjr]

Okay, the only solution I see with this for now is moving the whole team to Mac or Ubuntu. lol 🙄

[danieluyo]

¿Why not trying use php, apache/nginx, MySQL stack (not MAMP/XAMPP)?

[devcircus]

If you're developing on windows just use a vm. Laravel Homestead is a simple solution here.

[ronnyandre]

Same issue on Google Cloud VM (Debian 9, PHP-FPM 7.0.19)

[royalabhi17]

you can solve it by using composer with this command
$composer install --ignore-platform-reqs ext-pcntl ext-posix
else
composer install --ignore-platform-reqs

[pedrogaldino]

Same issue here on windows.
I don't think that change all my environment because of a php extension is not really a good solution...

Solving for now using the @royalabhi17 solution...

[youkineko]

@pedrogaldino @ForzaSFerrari on windows 10 you can try the Ubuntu app from the windows app store.
It will allow you to install horizon and you can run it from there.

[driesvints]

Closing this in favor of https://github.com/laravel/horizon/issues/170#issuecomment-433040421

[PhilippeDirx]

I think it's sad that we can't work on Windows with Horizon just because of an extension...
I have worked with Homestead before, but it's 10 times slower than for example XAMPP.