our $MyBin;

BEGIN {
    my $file = __FILE__;
    # get the path to the directory of this file using File::Basename

    my $package = __PACKAGE__;
    $package =~ s/::/\//g;

    # chop off the package name from the end of the file path
    $file =~ s/$package\.pm//;

    $MyBin = $file . 'bin';
}