Using illuminate/container outside of Laravel

bootstrap.php

<?php

// Vendor includes
include $config->base_path . '/libraries/Vendor/autoload.php';

// Include configuration file
$config = include('../config.php');

// Create IoC container
$ioc = new \Illuminate\Container\Container;

// Create request object
$request = \Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request::createFromGlobals();
$ioc->instance('Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request', $request);

// Setup database connection
$ioc->singleton(
    'PDO',
    function () use ($config) {

        $db = new \PDO('mysql:dbname=' . $config->db->name . ';host=' . $config->db->host, $config->db->username, $config->db->password);
        $db->setAttribute(PDO::ATTR_ERRMODE, PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION);
        $db->exec("SET NAMES 'UTF8'");

        return $db;
    }
);

// Template template engine
$ioc->singleton(
    'League\Plates\Engine',
    function () use ($config) {
        return new \League\Plates\Engine($config->base_path . '/views', 'tpl');
    }
);

// Setup router
// Note the router callback, which allows me to tie in
// the IoC container to help instantiate controllers
$router = new \Reinink\Roundabout\Router(
    $request,
    function ($class, $method, $parameters) use ($ioc) {
        return call_user_func_array(array($ioc->make($class), $method), $parameters);
    }
);

composer.json

{
    "require":
    {
        "illuminate/container": "4.0.*@dev",
    }
}