Discovery of Dynamic library dependency on Mac OS & Linux

Question

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?

Answer 1

You can put something like following into your bashrc so that you can always use "ldd" as interface but it will redirect macos equivalent one if machine is mac.

# Macos equivalent of ldd
if [[ "$OSTYPE" =~ "darwin"* ]]
then
  alias ldd="otool -L"
fi