Laravel Backup Requires Extension "ext-pcntl" on Windows When Upgrading to Version 8.0

[aryno]

I was recently updating my Laravel application to V9 on PHP 8.0.10 on Windows 10 and got this error message when running composer update saying
"spatie/laravel-backup[8.0.0, ..., 8.0.1] require ext-pcntl * -> it is missing from your system. Install or enable PHP's pcntl extension.".

Laravel backup is one of the core dependencies but the extension ext-pcntl seems to be unavailable for the Windows OS.

[freekmurze]

Our package does not officially supports windows. It might work for the most part without that extension though.

You could instruction composer to ignore those requirements, but I don't know the flag by heart, look that up at the composer site.

[erikn69]

On V7 ext-pcntl was optional with SignalRegistry::isSupported() #1352, Why can't V8 stay that way?

laravel-backup/src/Commands/BaseCommand.php

Lines 17 to 19 in ce99f8a

	if ($this->runningInConsole() && SignalRegistry::isSupported()) {
	$this->handlesSignals[] = SIGINT;
	}

composer require "spatie/laravel-backup:^8.0" --ignore-platform-reqs
Using the flag --ignore-platform-reqs makes ignore platform requirements for all the packages when updating

[freekmurze]

I'd accept a PR that adds the necessary changes to v8

[erikn69]

PR #1481