How to install behat and mink drivers in Windows 7 64-bit?

Question

I am trying to set up mink to work with behat, using the instructions at http://mink.behat.org/. As you will see, about 2 screens down it tells us that mink has been installed with no drivers. I think that means it can't talk to anything.

Then it gives a composer.json file for newbies to start with. I tried it, and when I run

php composer.phar install

this is what I get.

D:\Projects\TestCoachmaster>php composer.phar update
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies
Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

  Problem 1
    - Installation request for behat/mink-zombie-driver * -> satisfiable by behat/mink-zombie-driver v1.0.0.
    - behat/mink-zombie-driver v1.0.0 requires symfony/process >=2.1.0,<2.2.0-dev -> no matching package found
.
  Problem 2
    - behat/mink-goutte-driver v1.0.0 requires fabpot/goutte 1.0.* -> no matching package found.
    - behat/mink-goutte-driver v1.0.3 requires fabpot/goutte @dev -> no matching package found.
    - behat/mink-goutte-driver v1.0.2 requires fabpot/goutte 1.0.*@dev -> no matching package found.
    - behat/mink-goutte-driver v1.0.1 requires fabpot/goutte 1.0.x-dev -> no matching package found.
    - Installation request for behat/mink-goutte-driver * -> satisfiable by behat/mink-goutte-driver v1.0.1, b
ehat/mink-goutte-driver v1.0.2, behat/mink-goutte-driver v1.0.3, behat/mink-goutte-driver v1.0.0.

Potential causes:
 - A typo in the package name
 - The package is not available in a stable-enough version according to your minimum-stability setting 
   see https://groups.google.com/d/topic/composer-dev/_g3ASeIFlrc/discussion for more details.

D:\Projects\TestCoachmaster>

I have tried tweaking the minimum-stability to dev, and that did not help.

I am running under windows 7, 64 bit - and I have had to do a LOT of tweaking to get bhat and mink to install. I do think they have - its the drives that haven't.

Help gratefully received. Ian

Carlos Granados Carlos Granados · Accepted Answer · 2012-08-27T07:20:33

I went through this same problem a few days ago. This is a minimum stability issue. I don´t know how you tried to set the minimum stability, but what you should do is:

composer.json:

{
    "require": {
        "behat/mink-goutte-driver": "*",
        "behat/mink-selenium-driver": "*",
        "behat/mink-selenium2-driver": "*",
        "behat/mink-sahi-driver": "*",
        "behat/mink-zombie-driver": "*"
    },
    "minimum-stability": "dev" 
}

This should work, I tried it right now. Notice that I removed the reference to behat/mink as this produced another error and it should be automatically found as a dependence of these drivers

How to install behat and mink drivers in Windows 7 64-bit?

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