Re: [Msys2-users] About DLLs needed by Emacs (W64)

[Eli Z. <el...@gn...>]

> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2017 13:53:16 +0100 (CET)
> From: Angelo Graziosi <ang...@li...>
> 
> Just out of curiosity, given the Emacs executable, is there a way to know the MSYS2/MinGW64 DLLs it needs? On MSYS2 I tried:
> 
> ldd Emacs/bin/emacs-27.0.50.exe
> ntdll.dll => /c/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/ntdll.dll (0x7ffab5f30000)
> KERNEL32.DLL => /c/WINDOWS/System32/KERNEL32.DLL (0x7ffab49b0000)
> [...]
> WINMMBASE.dll => /c/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/WINMMBASE.dll (0x7ffab0620000)
> IPHLPAPI.DLL => /c/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/IPHLPAPI.DLL (0x7ffab18a0000)
> bcrypt.dll => /c/WINDOWS/SYSTEM32/bcrypt.dll (0x7ffab1de0000)
> 
> but it prints only Windows DLLs not all the others which come from MSYS2/MinGW64...

Like this:

  objdump -x emacs.exe | fgrep "DLL Name:"

However, if you are looking for the optional image libraries, libxml2,
etc., you won't find them this way: Emacs loads them dynamically at
run time by using explicit LoadLibrary calls.  Maybe something like
this:

  stringgs emacs.exe | fgrep -i ".dll"