What is the equivalent of Linux's ldd on windows?

Question

What is the equivalent of Linux\'s ldd on Windows?

Answer 1

or the GNU tool :

i586-mingw32msvc-objdump -p  *.exe    | grep 'DLL Name:'

Answer 2

There is now an ldd in Cygwin. If you have a very old Cygwin version, you will have to use cygcheck.

Answer 3

For Windows 10 you can use Dependencies - An open-source modern Dependency Walker

https://github.com/lucasg/Dependencies

Answer 4

For windows 10, with visual studio 2017, I go in the search bar of windows and type:

"developer Command Prompt for VS 2017" ( a special cmd.exe for Visual studio developer)

This allows to get access to DUMPBIN that should be used with the \IMPORTS tag. For example, in the correct directory:

DUMPBIN \IMPORTS yourfile.exe (others extension may work too)

For me, this list the DLL and the functions used.

Alternatively, you can use the tag \ALL that is much more verbose.

see the microsoft explanation of DUMPBIN:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cpp/build/reference/imports-dumpbin?view=vs-2019

Example ( with only a part) of the content sended back by the command

Answer 5

The dumpbin command can be useful for many things, although in this case dependency walker is probably a little more verbose.

dumpbin /dependents some.dll

Example output:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\Team Tools\Static Analysis Tools>dumpbin /dependents StanPolicy.dll

Dump of file StanPolicy.dll

File Type: DLL

Image has the following dependencies:

mscoree.dll

Summary

    2000 .reloc
    2000 .rsrc
   1E000 .text

Answer 6

Newer versions of Git on Windows come packaged with something called Git BASH, which emulates many useful Unix commands including ldd.

It appears that it reports only libraries that can be found. So you can use this to get an overview of where the used libraries are located, but not which are missing.