Get list of static libraries used in an executable

c++ c unix static linker
Saurabh picture Saurabh · Jul 14, 2009 · Viewed 57.6k times · Source

Since ldd lists only the dynamic libraries, is there a way to extract the information about the static libraries used to create the executable?

Answer

DrAl picture DrAl · Jul 14, 2009

ldd <exe filename> shows dynamically linked libraries

nm <exe filename> shows the symbols in the file.

To see which symbols come from static libraries requires running nm against those libraries to get a list of the symbols (functions, etc.) in them, then comparing them to what your list of symbols from nm <exe filename>.

You compare lists with the comm command. See man comm for details.

This was taken from this forum here.

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