Better support for Windows

[SOHELAHMED7]

It seems like this library does not works well on Windows OS.

Getting error:

The process tried to write to a nonexistent pipe.

Github Action link: https://github.com/cebe/php-openapi/actions/runs/17170926605/job/48720304970

[donatj]

That smells potentially like port exhaustion to me.

I'm poking around trying to figure out how you're using this and found that it seems like you were spinning up a new instance for each test case.

https://github.com/SOHELAHMED7/php-openapi/blob/52372c7596cac6ff0f7f9ad219033feaa7414707/tests/spec/ReferenceTest.php#L22-L37

My recommendation would be that you spin up one single instance per test in

setUpBeforeClass and tear it down at the end in tearDownAfterClass see the example:

https://github.com/donatj/mock-webserver/blob/73b5d53a8f1285674ff36b2474a4cb9132d81177/example/phpunit.php

You'll be burning through a lot fewer ports that way and give the system more time to clean them up.

[SOHELAHMED7]

I followed the way you mentioned above. Sadly I still see the issue. Commit and CI

However I found a way that is independent of this lib:

        if (stripos(PHP_OS_FAMILY, 'Windows') !== false) {
            $cmd = 'powershell -Command "Start-Process php -ArgumentList \'-S localhost:8787\' -NoNewWindow"';
            popen($cmd, "r");
        } else {
            exec('nohup php -S localhost:8787 > /dev/null 2>&1 &', $op);
        }

Maybe using popen instead of exec here might fix issue.

[donatj]

@jonasraoni Can you comment on this at all? You added the Windows support, and I know basically nothing about Windows.

[donatj]

@copilot can you take a look