Installing PHPUnit On Windows With Out PEAR

This is a quick description of how I got PHPUnit working on Windows without installing PEAR

The PHPUnit documentation is a cryptic and sparse when describing how to install PHPUnit on windows.

I am assuming that PHP is already installed and working.

Steps:

1. Download the latest version of PHPUnit (currently 3.4.9) from here http://pear.phpunit.de/get/
2. Extract to somewhere (I put it in my PHP directory)
3. Edit the phpunit.bat file. At the bottom of the file there are two lines:
   set PHPBIN="@php_bin@"
%PHPBIN% "@bin_dir@\phpunit" %*
4. Change them to something like this:
   set PHPBIN="C:\Program Files (x86)\PHP\php.exe"
%PHPBIN% "C:\Program Files (x86)\PHP\phpunit.php" %*
5. To test if PHPUnit is working run “phpunit --help” from a command  prompt (PHP directory needs to be set in the path environment variable).

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