Find libraries a binary was linked against

Question

I know that there is a command that lists me the libs and respective versions a software was linked against.

Something with ld or libtool?

But I just cannot remember. Spent some time on google but didn't come up with anything useful.

Update
ldd <binary> would help on linux, (from @Ernelli) while I found that otool -L <binary> does something similar on MacOS X.

Solution 1

Try ldd binary-exec

Example:

~$ ldd /bin/bash
    linux-gate.so.1 =>  (0x00606000)
    libncurses.so.5 => /lib/libncurses.so.5 (0x00943000)
    libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0x00c5d000)
    libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0x003e9000)
    /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00a41000)

Solution 2

To find what it directly needs:

readelf -d APP | grep NEEDED

ldd as mentioned elsewhere will show all direct and indirect libs - everything it needs at runtime. This may not be a complete list, since you may dynamically open things with dlopen(), but this should work 99% of the time.

ld and libtool are used at compile/link time. They aren't useful once you have an app.

EDIT I can see by later answers you were asking about OSX, but I want to add to my answer on Linux tools:

One thing I forgot to mention, quite a while ago; you asked about versions. Neither ldd nor readelf will answer the "what version" question. They will tell you the filename of the library you are looking for, and the naming convention may have some version info, but nothing enforces this. Symbols may be versioned, and you would have to much about even lower level with nm to see these,

Solution 3

Another way would be to use objdump.

objdump -x "binary" | grep NEEDED

This shows all needed dependencies only for this binary. Very useful.

Comments

[Ciro Santilli Путлер Капут 六四事]

stackoverflow.com/questions/50159/…

[XZheng]

Dang! So my first try was right. Just need to install it on my Mac so it acutally knows the command ;-)

[user1686]

@er4z0r: FYI, Mac OS is BSD, not Linux.

[XZheng]

grwaity: you are right. While ldd would help on linux I found that 'otool -L <binary>' does something similar.