Uncaught LogicException: Windows isn't supported due to the blocking nature of STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR pipes

[bozhinov]

hello,

I get this with PHP 7.2.6 x86

C:\Users\Momchil\Desktop\PHP-GUI>php examples\01-basic\example.php
PHP Fatal error: Uncaught LogicException: Windows isn't supported due to the blocking nature of STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR pipes. in C:\Users\Momchil\Desktop\PHP-GUI\react\ChildProcess\Process.php:52
Stack trace:
#0 C:\Users\Momchil\Desktop\PHP-GUI\src\Application.php(286): React\ChildProcess\Process->__construct('.\phpgui-x86_64...', 'C:\Users\Momchi...')
#1 C:\Users\Momchil\Desktop\PHP-GUI\examples\01-basic\example.php(82): Gui\Application->run()
#2 {main}
thrown in C:\Users\Momchil\Desktop\PHP-GUI\react\ChildProcess\Process.php on line 52

Running all latest sources from GitHub
So, Windows is no more ?

[still-dreaming-1]

When using the latest master code, and I don't experience this. But I manually updated the react/child-process dependency to a newer version, as I was trying to update php-gui to use the newest version, and then I experience a similar exception. Looking at their (react/child-process) release notes, it sounds like this was perhaps not compatible with Windows all along, but they made it more clear by adding this exception you ran into. I'm not totally clear on that point, was it really not compatible all along, or did it become not compatible when they added the exception? Regardless, with even newer versions, they (react/child-process) did add limited Windows support, but you have to use special workarounds. I don't know if php-gui can be changed to use those workarounds or if they are too limiting.

https://github.com/reactphp/child-process/releases

Unfortunately that project's suggestion to use WSL if running on Windows is not a great solution in this case, as running GUI applications on WSL is not a good experience, or at least I haven't gotten it to work very well.