Phpunit: Composer PHPUnit can't find the autoload.php

[feulf]

I've just installed Laravel 5 and run composer install (composer 1.0.0-dev), which installed phpunit in vendor/bin/phpunit.

When I run vendor/bin/phpunit I get this message:
You need to set up the project dependencies using the following commands:

The autoload.php file is in vendor/autoload.php.

PHPunit is searching for autoload.php in the wrong folder:
https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/blob/4a9fb9c9d7f980b00da53eb809d82f9f1a9fe56b/phpunit#L16

This can be fixed by simply as adding __DIR__ . '/../autoload.php' into the array in the foreach.

[whatthejeff]

Which platform are you using? Sounds like this is possibly the same as #1516.

[feulf]

I'm on OSX Yosemite. __DIR__ resolves as vendor/bin but that's correct because the files are in:
vendor/bin/phpunit
vendor/autoload.php

To resolve the issue in my project I added __DIR__ . '/../autoload.php' to the array.

[whatthejeff]

Is vendor/bin/phpunit not a symlink on your system? For me it looks like this:

$ ls -lo vendor/bin/phpunit 
lrwxr-xr-x  1 jeff  26 Feb 11 18:11 vendor/bin/phpunit -> ../phpunit/phpunit/phpunit

[feulf]

Not a symlink.

$ ls -lo vendor/bin/phpunit 
-rwxr-xr-x  1 federico  960 Feb 11 17:45 vendor/bin/phpunit

[feulf]

FYI this is the composer.json file:

{
    "name": "laravel/laravel",
    "description": "The Laravel Framework.",
    "keywords": ["framework", "laravel"],
    "license": "MIT",
    "type": "project",
    "require": {
        "laravel/framework": "5.0.*"
    },
    "require-dev": {
        "phpunit/phpunit": "~4.0",
        "phpspec/phpspec": "~2.1"
    },
    "autoload": {
        "classmap": [
            "database"
        ],
        "psr-4": {
            "App\\": "app/"
        }
    },
    "autoload-dev": {
        "classmap": [
            "tests/TestCase.php"
        ]
    },
    "scripts": {
        "post-install-cmd": [
            "php artisan clear-compiled",
            "php artisan optimize"
        ],
        "post-update-cmd": [
            "php artisan clear-compiled",
            "php artisan optimize"
        ],
        "post-create-project-cmd": [
            "php -r \"copy('.env.example', '.env');\"",
            "php artisan key:generate"
        ]
    },
    "config": {
        "preferred-install": "dist"
    }
}

[bart]

I've found the solution. phpunit from vendor/bin isn't symlinked. You can fix it by re-installing (remove from composer.json, composer update, add to composer.json, composer update) phpunit

[yesdevnull]

I had the same problem - phpunit wasn't symlinked. Following the steps above by @bart fixed it. Cheers!

[waterbrookbespoke]

Many thanks to @bart - same issue!

[petermorlion]

I was able to solve it without a complete reinstall. Just:

rm -f vendor/bin/phpunit
ln -s ../vendor/phpunit/phpunit/phpunit vendor/bin/phpunit

[keller0]

I was able to solve it without a complete reinstall. Just:

rm -f vendor/bin/phpunit
ln -s ../vendor/phpunit/phpunit/phpunit vendor/bin/phpunit

The path should be:
ln -s ../phpunit/phpunit/phpunit vendor/bin/phpunit

[rcubitto]

This worked for me:

rm -rf vendor
composer install