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## Install civicrm on drupal 8 on windows.md

      
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Variation of patch below has been merged into the roundearth plugin as of 2019-11-12, so shouldn't need this anymore.

Intro

There's a problem that seems to have been around since about June 2019 where archive_tar is no longer able to extract the civicrm download .tar.gz file on windows so the install fails. These steps will get it installed.
Steps


composer create-project roundearth/drupal-civicrm-project:8.x-dev some-dir

It will fail with an error about unable to extract.


Apply hack patch to vendor/roundearth/civicrm-composer-plugin/src/Handler.php

--- Handler.php
+++ Handler.php.new
@@ -195,8 +195,10 @@
       $this->filesystem->dumpFile($civicrm_archive_file, fopen($civicrm_archive
_url, 'r'));

       $this->output("<info>Extracting CiviCRM {$civicrm_version} release...</in
fo>");
-      $extract_successful = (new \Archive_Tar($civicrm_archive_file, "gz"))->ex
tract($civicrm_extract_path);
-      if (!$extract_successful) {
+      try {
+        $phar = new \PharData($civicrm_archive_file);
+        $phar->extractTo($civicrm_extract_path);
+      } catch (Exception $e) {
         throw new \RuntimeException("Unable to extract: $civicrm_archive_file")
;
       }


Delete vendor/civicrm/civicrm-core.

This is important because otherwise it won't trigger the plugin to do its thing in the next step.


From the root folder where you installed the project, type:

composer require civicrm/civicrm-drupal-8


Install drupal normally, e.g. visiting http://site/install.php.
If logged in to website, logout.
From the root folder where you installed the project, type:

vendor\drush\drush\drush.bat en -y -l host.name.org civicrm


Replace host.name.org with the correct domain name, e.g. example.org. Without the -l parameter you'll probably end up with http://DEFAULT as civi's BASEURL.


Log back in
The civi menus will look messed up. So as it says in the roundearth readme, update the resource url by going to /civicrm/admin/setting/url?reset=1 and setting the value to [cms.root]/libraries/civicrm.