X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 12:13:21 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: New "ldd" binary in snapshot and eventually in release Message-ID: <20090109171321.GA17093@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com References: <20090109170544.GA17048@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090109170544.GA17048@ednor.casa.cgf.cx> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Note-from-DJ: This may be spam On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 12:05:45PM -0500, Christopher Faylor wrote: >Last night, after seeing a request on irc, I did something that I've >been meaning to do for many years - I wrote an "ldd" for Cygwin. > >The tricky part about writing ldd is getting it to display the load >addresses of dlls that a program uses. I accomplished that by running >the program up to its entry point, displaying the list of loaded dlls >and their load addresses, and then terminating the process. > >I haven't verified this but ldd should work on any windows program. ldd >itself is a cygwin program but the programs it inspects don't have to >be. The output is similar to but not identical linux. The paths that >it displays are in /cygwin/format. > >Btw, the techniques that I used may only work on Windows XP and above. >I haven't confirmed that either. > >I haven't updated the documentation to include ldd yet but I expect to >do that over the weekend. Meant to add a link to a man page for ldd for people who don't know what it is: http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_ldd.htm Only the --help and --version options are implemented in the version that I wrote last night. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/