Extension links on local don't work

Zacharieg

Hello !
I have a weird problem here, I am developing an extension so I use the following commands to integrate it in Flarum

composer config repositories.0 path "/path/to/my/developping/folder/"
composer require zacharieg/piwigo-mentions *@dev

I am on windows and I have 3 version of Flarum (1.1, 1.2 and 1.3). I tried those commands on all the version and only one actually execute the plugin (the 1.2).
When I check the folder flarum/vendor/zacharieg of the versions that doesn't work, I see that the folder link is not correctly established. Is this a composer problem ? Do you have any idea in how to fix this ?

Thanks in advance for your replies 😉

luceos

Zacharieg try executing the require command with higher verbosity -vvv

luceos

Zacharieg When I check the folder flarum/vendor/zacharieg of the versions that doesn't work, I see that the folder link is not correctly established.

Can you share the output of that directory, so that we can see the symlink being created?

And can you share the actual path you used, is this an absolute Windows path? Are you on WSL?

Zacharieg

Thanks for your help ! When I execute the command with -vvv I get that (I only wrotes lines that seems like errors)

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Failed to initialize global composer: Composer could not find the config file: /home/guetz/.config/composer/composer.json                                                                                                                                                                 
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Downloading https://repo.packagist.org/p2/psr/http-message-implementation.json                                                               
[404] https://repo.packagist.org/p2/psr/http-message-implementation.json                                                                     
...

Zacharieg

luceos Yes I am in WSL, and it's maybe caused by that, but this is weird because it worked before... I'm in "/mnt/d/Documents/Xampp/htdocs/Flarum" in my WSL, and the output is
lrwxrwxrwx 1 guetz guetz 62 Jun 30 16:44 piwigo-mentions -> '/mnt/d/Documents/Xampp/htdocs/Flarum Extension/piwigo-mentions'
But in Windows folder explorer I see that the symlink is not correct (it's marked as a file with a default icon).

luceos

Zacharieg I am not sure the composer inside the WSL container can access the mount from Windows.

I also develop on Windows with WSL and I have my workbench inside the Flarum root. Phpstorm (in windows) can access these files by using the path to wsl: \\wsl$\Ubuntu-20.04\home\luceos\code\flarum

Zacharieg

luceos Yes ok thank you ! I now develop my extension in the vendor/zacharieg folder and I have no problem... I guess I was lucky that the symlink worked the first time 😆

luceos

Zacharieg I'd recommend still using a workbench, see https://discuss.flarum.org/d/1608-extension-development-using-composer-repositories-path but use it inside the root directory of Flarum. Otherwise upon composer actions your changes might be reset.