Steps to get PHPUnit to run on my XAMPP setup with Cygwin, so I can write and run Symfony2 unit tests. 1. Upgrade PEAR Download http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar to C:\xampp\php\go-pear.phar Run this in cmd.exe (cygwin prompts hosed somehow), taking all defaults c:\xampp\php>go-pear.bat…