Following the amazing work [@david-snopek][1] posted:

 - Blog post - [CiviCRM & D8][2], 
 - [David's StackExchange Post][3].

I spent the better part of last evening trying to get CiviCRM up and running on a Drupal 8.4 [BLT][4] project. 


After trying a few different approaches, unfortunately I'm now seeing the following error when trying to enable the `CiviCRM Core` Module

```CiviCRM must be downloaded into the libraries folder.```
[![enter image description here][5]][5]

No matter what I try, I can't seem to get the module to recognize that civicrm is installed. 


#Other things I've tried:

 1. manually copying the `[project_root]/vendor/civicrm-core` into `[project_root]/docroot/libraries/civicrm-core`
 2. Renaming `libraries/civicrm-core`to `libraries/civicrm`
 3. Modifying `composer.json` to try and install CiviCRM into the libraries folder:
 4. Creating symbolic links to the folder (my least favorite attempt)
 

Here is the composer.json update for number 3 above:

        "require": {
        "acquia/blt": "^8.3",
        "phpoffice/PHPWord": "dev-zend-version as 0.13.0",
        "civicrm/civicrm-core": "4.7.25"
    },

...




    "repositories": {
        "phpword": {
            "type": "vcs",
            "url": "https://github.com/dsnopek/PHPWord.git"
        },
        "zetacomponents-mail": {
            "type": "vcs",
            "url": "https://github.com/civicrm/zetacomponents-mail.git"
        },
        "civicrm": {
            "type": "package",
            "package": {
                "name": "civicrm/civicrm-core",
                "version": "4.7.25",
                "type": "drupal-library",
                "source": {
                    "url": "https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core.git",
                    "type": "git",
                    "reference": "origin/master"
               }
            }
        }
    }


  

source: https://gist.github.com/mortenson/a5390d99013b5b8c0254081e89bb4d47





I *think* this has to do with an autoloader issue perhaps seeing that BLT does not use the drupal composer.json file and the instructions @david-snopek posted were for the traditional Drupal installation method.

I was able to trace the error to `modules/custom/civicrm-drupal/civicrm.install:125`

    /**
     * Returns the path to where CiviCRM is installed.
     *
     * @return string|void
     *
     * Recommended location for civicrm is in /libraries/civicrm [citation needed].
     * We also allow /modules/civicrm, which seems to work fine.
     */
    function _civicrm_find_civicrm() {
      if ($path = drupal_get_path('module', 'civicrm')) {
        if (file_exists($path . '/CRM/Core/ClassLoader.php')) {
          return \Drupal::service('file_system')->realpath($path);
        }
      }
    
      $path = 'vendor/civicrm/civicrm-core';
      if (file_exists($path . '/CRM/Core/ClassLoader.php')) {
        return \Drupal::service('file_system')->realpath($path);
      }
    
      return NULL;
    }



---
#Notes on my process:

I ran into a couple snags with the [Gist David posted][1].

 1. When running $ `composer require 'phpoffice/PHPWord:dev-zend-version as 0.13.0'`, I noticed that composer was trying to add the dependency as: 

```
    "require": {
        "phpoffice/PHPWord": "dev-zend-version",
        "as 0.13.0"
    },
```

This failed but I was able to get past the issue by manually adding the dependency to the composer.json file as:

```
    "require": {
        "acquia/blt": "^8.3",
        "phpoffice/PHPWord": "dev-zend-version as 0.13.0",
    },
```

Unfortunately, I then got stuck on the next step requiring civicrm-core until I read the comment a bit closer. I believe this step is now incorrect as `civicrm-core 4.7.25` has been released. 


    #Require civicrm-core at the requested version.
    #TODO: Need to keep using my fork until 4.7.25 is released!
    #composer require civicrm/civicrm-core:$CIVICRM_VERSION
    composer require "civicrm/civicrm-core:dev-roundearth-$CIVICRM_VERSION as $CIVICRM_VERSION"



I was able to get past that issue by updating the additional repository via: 
`composer config repositories.civicrm-core vcs https://github.com/civicrm/civicrm-core.git`












Reference: 
https://www.mydropwizard.com/blog/how-install-civicrm-drupal-8-and-why-choose-it-over-pure-drupal-crm


  [1]: https://gist.github.com/dsnopek/56311dbea347874e75180883efabb620
  [2]: https://www.mydropwizard.com/blog/how-install-civicrm-drupal-8-and-why-choose-it-over-pure-drupal-crm
  [3]: https://drupal.stackexchange.com/questions/241716/how-to-install-a-module-which-includes-a-different-version-of-symfony/241738
  [4]: http://github.com/acquia/blt
  [5]: https://i.sstatic.net/Li7kn.jpg