Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2009 12:05:45 -0500
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please AT cygwin DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: New "ldd" binary in snapshot and eventually in release
Message-ID: <20090109170544.GA17048@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>
Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09)
Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm
Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com
Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Note-from-DJ: This may be spam

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.

FYI.
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/