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ELF Lib Viewer « Gergap’s Weblog — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 16:47:55 +0000

[...] googled a little bit and found a nice Qt based tool called ELFLibViewer which does the same job for ELF binaries on [...]

By: pipitas

Sat, 27 Oct 2007 12:51:26 +0000

Michael,

are you aware of “visual-ldd”? Like in http://unix.freshmeat.net/projects/visual_ldd/ (freshmeat) and in http://unix.freshmeat.net/screenshots/54133/58133/ (screenshot) and in http://cvs.sunsite.dk/viewcvs.cgi/autopackage/visual-ldd/ (source code repository)?

Cheers,
Kurt

By: mpyne

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 03:15:15 +0000

One last thing, I asked about reinventing the wheel, turns out there’s already a script out to do much the same job. It looks good but depends on a lot of stuff that makes me not feel like installing it right now.

http://wiki.tfkyle.dyndns.org/wiki/DepSpec

By: mpyne

Fri, 26 Oct 2007 03:10:47 +0000

Leo: I suspect the difference in the number of dependencies is due to the –as-needed flag which was mentioned early. I didn’t add that flag explicitly and I’m not sure if CMake does auto-detection for it (I doubt it since it apparently breaks on a couple of programs which have been mis-linked but worked since they indirectly depended on the libraries in question).

By: mpyne

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 22:22:15 +0000

I’ve enabled a few more spam fighting plugins and disabled moderation. For the first time ever I’m running a blog that not only supports comments, but will immediately add said comment to the post. We’ll see how this works.

I’ve been trying to avoid plugins that require JavaScript to work (one requires JS but can fail gracefully with extra user intervention). Hopefully I won’t have to eventually have to go the route of requiring JS to try and weed out bots.

By: mpyne

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 21:06:20 +0000

Diederik: objdump works just fine as well (i.e. objdump -p -j .dynamic `which kfoo`). I just happened to notice that readelf does what I want first.

All: Sorry about comments not posting. I’ll try and loosen the anti-spamming measures.

By: yokem55

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:00:50 +0000

This would have been a HUGE help a couple of months ago when the whole expat upgrade mess hit. I spent hours trying to figure out which library that kde linked to was missing the right expat.so version. I ended up just rebuilding kde.

By: Allan Sandfeld

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 19:27:05 +0000

Very cool. You need something like this more often than most people realise.

By: Leo S

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:12:45 +0000

Actually I just tried loading elflibviewer and it only shows 7 dependencies. I wonder what’s different between yours and mine.

By: Leo S

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 18:10:23 +0000

Neat. This could be very useful.
I wonder why your screenshot shows so many dependencies on X libs in the top level. I ran it against my program and it only has qtgui/network/sql/core and the libc/stdc++/pthread stuff. Only 10 first level dependencies overall..