I’m used to using ldd to help list shared libraries for programs in UNIX-land. If you’re a UNIX Admin type person or a UNIX developer ldd is really valuable for trying to figure out what an executable file needs to run.Naturally I tried to use ldd on OS X and noticed this:
(555) lddbash: ldd: command not found
OS X has a different tool called otool which handles that functionality. Here’s an example:
(556) otool -L ruby ruby: /usr/local/lib/libruby.dylib (compatibility version 1.8.0, current version 1.8.0) /usr/lib/libobjc.A.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 218.0.0) /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 63.0.0)
Happy otool’ing
