Windows support

[jmkgreen]

Trying to do some testing on my Windows workstation but PHP_Invoker does not install (pcntl not supported).

PHP_Unit appears to require PHP_Invoker however. Is Windows simply not going to work as a testing platform or am I not following something..?

[sebastianbergmann]

PHP_Invoker is an optional dependency of PHPUnit. The feature of PHPUnit that depends on PHP_Invoker is not available when PHP_Invoker (or its dependency ext/pcntl) is not installed.

[niveuseverto]

This is depends on current Autoload procedure (Mine for example throws exceptions if no class found), so PHPUnit fails to start.

[Fahr]

The issue with custom autoloaders can be easily avoided by setting the optional second parameter of class_exists on line 409 in GlobalState.php to false. That is how I got PHPUnit to work on Windows with a project that uses a custom autoloader (which also throws an exception).

so PHPUnit\Util\GlobalState.php line 409 from

    if (!class_exists($className)) {

to

    if (!class_exists($className, false)) {

and it will work, on windows, with a custom autoloader.
This might be a change worth using anyway, as it does not seem to break anything else.