Installation

ATick for PHP is one Composer package with the matching engine bundled inside — no compiler, no build step, no other PHP dependency.

Requirements

PHP 7.4 or newer (through the latest 8.x), with the FFI extension enabled.
On the CLI the FFI extension is usually available out of the box. On a web SAPI (PHP-FPM / Apache) enable it in php.ini:

php.ini

extension=ffi
ffi.enable=1        ; or: ffi.enable=preload

Any supported OS/arch — Windows 7+ (x64/x86/ARM64), Linux (x64/ARM64/ARM, every glibc distro), macOS (Intel/Apple Silicon).

Install

terminal

composer require aniketc068/atick

Verify

verify.php

<?php
require 'vendor/autoload.php';

use Aniketc068\ATick\Atick;

echo Atick::version(), "\n";   // e.g. 1.0.6

How the bundled engine is loaded

The package ships the matching ATick engine for each platform inside the package. At require 'vendor/autoload.php' the right one for your OS and architecture is loaded automatically through PHP FFI — there is no compilation on install.

Platform	Target
`windows-x86_64` / `windows-i686`	Windows 7 → 11 (64/32-bit)
`windows-aarch64`	Windows on ARM64
`linux-x86_64` / `linux-aarch64` / `linux-arm` / `linux-i686`	Linux x64 / ARM64 / ARM / 32-bit (glibc 2.17+, every distro)
`darwin-x86_64` / `darwin-aarch64`	macOS Intel / Apple Silicon

PHP supported: 7.4 → latest 8.x.

Other languages

ATick is the same engine across runtimes. The same code translates directly:

Python — pip install atick
Java — io.github.aniketc068:atick
.NET — dotnet add package ATick
Node.js — npm install atick