Error on Artisan commands when updating Composer dependencies

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This issue has finally been resolved as of laravel/framework:v5.2.25 and laravel/laravel:v5.2.27, and backported to laravel/framework:v5.1.33 and laravel/laravel:v5.1.33.

This fix includes a change to the Laravel application (laravel/laravel), in addition to the Laravel Framework (laravel/framework). To implement, you will need to:

1) Update the scripts section of your composer.json file to match that in the laravel/laravel package. Specifically:

• remove the pre-update-cmd section
• in the post-install-cmd section, replace "php artisan clear-compiled" with "Illuminate\\Foundation\\ComposerScripts::postInstall"
• in the post-update-cmd section, replace "php artisan clear-compiled" with "Illuminate\\Foundation\\ComposerScripts::postUpdate"

2) Once you have updated your composer.json, run a composer update. If you only want to update the framework, you can run composer update laravel/framework.

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After looking over the Github issue you posted in the comments, as well as the related issues, you may be in for a bit of a wait. Taylor would like to put a script in vendor/bin and change composer.json to run that, but it looks like they are waiting for a PR from the community, and won't actually implement this themselves.

You haven't done anything wrong; your autoloading is setup correctly. The issue is with Laravel right now.

Moving the command to the post-update-cmd script doesn't work because artisan will always try to load the cache files when they exist. When running the clear-compiled command, artisan loads the cache files (part of startup) before it ever tries to delete them.

Your best bet is to manually delete the cache files before artisan gets run. And, you need to do it outside of Laravel/Artisan. So, you can manually delete the files, or you can create a little script to do it and add that to your composer.json file (for your main project, not your package).

Files to delete:

• Laravel 5.2:
  bootstrap/cache/compiled.php
bootstrap/cache/services.php
• Laravel 5.1:
  bootstrap/cache/compiled.php
bootstrap/cache/services.json
• Laravel 5.0:
  vendor/compiled.php
storage/framework/compiled.php
vendor/services.json
storage/framework/services.json

When using composer install or composer update you can use --no-scripts option to skips execution of scripts defined in composer.json.

e. g.: composer update --no-scripts.

Source: https://getcomposer.org/doc/03-cli.md#install