Installation can fail on Windows

[tony0918]

Hi Team,
When I use command
composer create-project acquia/lightning-project:^8.1.0 MYPROJECT --no-interaction
to install lightning project, get following issue. Please refer to the screenshot.

Please help

[balsama]

Looks like you might have some outdated stuff in your composer cache. Can you try running:

$ composer clear-cache

You also might want to double check your global minimum stability setting if you have one.

[tony0918]

Thanks for quick reply. I will try again. Maybe there is an network issue.

[tony0918]

Got a new error. Any idea can help? Thanks.

[tgifford-webfirst]

It looks like @tony0918 was using Windows. There are two issues I had to fix to get this working on Windows:

• Install in a folder with a short path (PHP on Windows does not support paths longer than 260 chars)
• Pass an absolute path to ProcessExecutor->execute() method call in scripts\ScriptHandler.php:35

$executor->execute('npm run install-libraries', $output, realpath($lightning));

That will fix the error code 267 (The directory name is invalid.).

[tony0918]

Right. It was on Windows with Git Bash.