ffi / location

1.1.0 2026-10-24 14:24 UTC

Requires

• php: ^7.4|^8.0

Requires (Dev)

• friendsofphp/php-cs-fixer: ^3.95
• phpstan/phpstan: ^2.3
• phpstan/phpstan-deprecation-rules: ^2.0
• phpstan/phpstan-strict-rules: ^2.0
• phpunit/phpunit: ^9.6|^10.5|^11.0|^12.0|^13.0

MIT

• Nesmeyanov Kirill

• utility
• location
• bin
• ffi

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-10-24 14:31 UTC

README

Library for searching binary files in the operating system.

Requirements

• PHP >= 7.4

Installation

Library is available as a Composer repository and can be installed using the following command in the root of your project.

$ composer require ffi/location

Usage

Existence Check

Checking the library for existence.

use FFI\Location\Locator;

$exists = Locator::exists('libGL.so');
// Expected true in the case that the binary exists and false otherwise

Binary Pathname

Getting the full path to the library.

use FFI\Location\Locator;

$pathname = Locator::pathname('libGL.so');
// Expected "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libGL.so.1.7.0" or null
// in the case that the library cannot be found

Binary Resolving

Checking multiple names to find the most suitable library.

use FFI\Location\Locator;

$pathname = Locator::resolve('example.so', 'test.so', 'libvulkan.so');
// Expected "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libvulkan.so.1.2.131" or null
// in the case that the library cannot be found