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RE: Where is ldd?


On 06 October 2006 15:27, Tim Prince wrote:

> Ralph Moritz wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I can't seem to find the ldd utility which comes bundled with glibc on
>> GNU/Linux. Where should I be looking?
>> 
> I doubt that glibc provided this; it looks like a binutils thing.

  Nope, it's part of the ld.so.  'ldd' lists an executable's runtime
dependencies on DSOs.

> However, there is a big difference between Windows and linux, and
> Windows already provides similar tools.

  The equivalent on cygwin would be to run "cygcheck <executable>" and see
what DLLs it requires to load.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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