ircmaxell / ffime
Make life easy when working with FFI
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Requires
- php: >=8.0
- ircmaxell/php-c-parser: dev-master
- ircmaxell/php-object-symbolresolver: dev-master
Requires (Dev)
- phpunit/phpunit: ^8.0
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Last update: 2024-10-31 00:17:15 UTC
README
This is a wrapper library for PHP's FFI extension.
You provide it with a shared object, and one or more header files, and it automatically generates the C structures and function signatures for you (just like doing it in C would). It then provides wrapper classes for all C structures and functions to provide a fully typed experience.
Usage:
Currently there are two modes of operation, an "inline" mode:
$libc = (new FFIMe\FFIMe(FFIMe\FFIMe::LIBC)) ->include("stdio.h") ->build(); $libc->printf("test\n");
And a code generating mode:
(new FFIMe\FFIMe(FFIMe\FFIMe::LIBC)) ->include("stdio.h") ->include("other.h") ->codeGen('full\\classname', 'path/to/file.php'); require 'path/to/file.php'; $libc = full\classname::ffi(); $libc->printf("test\n");
The code generating mode is designed to be used in production, where you'd code generate during a build step and ship with your library.
This should now work for the majority of header files. Looking at some of the code, specifically the compiler, there is a bit of hard coding necessary. So I don't expect every file to work out of the box. If you find a header file that doesn't work, just open a bug and we'll take a look.
Check out the examples;
Slimming it down
Generating FFI for large projects may result in codefiles counting tens or hundreds of thousands of lines, though only a few hundred or thousand are actually needed. This may result in a non-trivial overhead, which can be removed after development.
$ffi = (new FFIMe\FFIMe(FFIMe\FFIMe::LIBC)) ->include("stdio.h"); $ffi->codeGenWithInstrumentation('full\\classname', 'path/to/file.php'); // Run some code providing 100% coverage of all code using FFI (new PHPUnit\TextUI\Command)->run([$argv[0], "test"], false); $ffi->codeGen('full\\classname', 'path/to/file.php');