No prompt (“>>>”) is displayed on Win10

[zhekaus]

If I run psysh inside GitBash or Cygwin, no prompt (">>>") is displayed. Arrows up&down doesn’t list the history. However, other things seemingly work.
There is no such a problem with cmd.exe. However, it sacrifices the colorful output.

Win10, Psy Shell v0.8.11 (PHP 7.1.10 — cli)

[bobthecow]

Can you paste the output of Psy\info()?

Shell history requires readline, and I believe this isn’t available in PHP under Windows. It can be installed in Cygwin, but might require a —with-readline flag?

The prompt should be showing up, though. I’ll take a look at that.

[zhekaus]

Psy\info()
=> [
     "PsySH version" => "v0.8.11",
     "PHP version" => "7.1.10",
     "default includes" => [],
     "require semicolons" => false,
     "error logging level" => 32767,
     "config file" => [
       "default config file" => null,
       "local config file" => null,
       "PSYSH_CONFIG env" => false,
     ],
     "updates" => [
       "update available" => false,
       "latest release version" => "v0.8.11",
       "update check interval" => "weekly",
       "update cache file" => "~/AppData/Roaming/PsySH/update_check.json",
     ],
     "pcntl" => [
       "pcntl available" => false,
       "posix available" => false,
     ],
     "readline" => [
       "readline available" => true,
       "readline enabled" => true,
       "readline service" => "Psy\Readline\Libedit",
     ],
     "history" => [
       "history file" => "~/AppData/Roaming/PsySH/psysh_history",
       "history size" => null,
       "erase duplicates" => null,
     ],
     "docs" => [
       "manual db file" => null,
       "sqlite available" => true,
     ],
     "autocomplete" => [
       "tab completion enabled" => true,
       "custom matchers" => [],
     ],
   ]

[zhekaus]

I'm not sure about -with-readline flag... Where should I put it?

[bobthecow]

Looks like you've got readline anyway. It should be working :(

[bobthecow]

Readline support under Cygwin appears to be incomplete. See this comment on php.net:

http://php.net/manual/en/function.readline.php#121244

Closing this because there's not much we can do on our end. Sorry :(

[kip-13]

I figured out how resolve this problem in cygwin or babun(based on cygwin)

In babun you need to use the package manager pact(included) to download the correct PHP binary compatible and other packages to work correctly:

$ pact install php php-posix php-mbstring ....

In cygwin you need to use apt-cyg(use the binary from here) or pact(too) to do the same:

$ apt-cyg install php php-posix php-mbstring ....

The situation with GitBash for Windows is that is a MSYS based on MinGW not compatible with POSIX and use the binary of PHP to Windows that have problems with readline funcs.

[bobthecow]

Thanks @kip-13!

Do you mind starting a page in the wiki about this?

[kip-13]

I'll write about this in a page @bobthecow, maybe in Installation section like other item in "More installation info" ?

[bobthecow]

Sure. Thank you!

[kip-13]

@bobthecow, added the page in the wiki, let me know if it's correct for you.