Discovery of Dynamic library dependency on Mac OS

问题:

On Windows there is a tool Depends.exe to discover dependency of an EXE/DLL file on other DDLs. Which commandline tool is equivalent on Mac OS and Linux?

回答1:

• Mac OS X: otool -L file
• Linux: ldd file

If those commands don't provide what you want, on Mac OS X you can dump all the load commands with otool -l file. On Linux you can dump the entire contents of the dynamic section with readelf -d file.

回答2:

You can also try MacDependency (http://macdependency.googlecode.com) which provides an UI replacement for otool on MacOS X. It shows complete dependency trees and the exported symbols as well.

回答3:

try ldd in the terminal. This will provide you a list of dynamic libraries that the binary needs.