Finding out what libraries are needed for an executable

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Is there an easy way to find out what DLLs an executable wants, without
actually trying to run it?

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Kevin Miller wrote:

Is there an easy way to find out what DLLs an executable wants, without
actually trying to run it?

ldd?

$ ldd which gdb
/usr/bin/gdb:
libm.so.2 => /lib/libm.so.2 (0xb8200000)
libsocket.so.2 => /lib/libsocket.so.2 (0xb821c000)
libc.so.2 => /usr/lib/ldqnx.so.2 (0xb0300000)

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Kevin Miller wrote:

Is there an easy way to find out what DLLs an executable wants, without
actually trying to run it?

objdump -x | grep NEEDED


–Armin