lddtree-rs

Read the dynamic library dependency tree. Supports ELF (Linux), Mach-O (macOS), and PE (Windows) binaries.

This does not work like ldd in that we do not execute/load code (only read files on disk). The binary format is detected automatically from the file header.

This is roughly a Rust port of lddtree.py from auditwheel, extended with Mach-O and PE support. It's used in maturin for automatic wheel repair on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Features

• ELF: rpath/runpath resolution, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, ld.so.conf parsing, sysroot support
• Mach-O: @rpath, @loader_path, @executable_path resolution, DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH/DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH, fat/universal binary support
• PE: case-insensitive DLL lookup, API set DLL skipping (api-ms-win-*, ext-ms-win-*), Windows system directory search order, sysroot/Wine prefix support

Installation

Add it to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
lddtree = "0.5"

Usage

use lddtree::DependencyAnalyzer;

// Analyze with default settings (root = "/")
let deps = DependencyAnalyzer::default()
    .analyze("/usr/bin/python3")
    .unwrap();

println!("Interpreter: {:?}", deps.interpreter);
println!("Direct dependencies: {:?}", deps.needed);
for (name, lib) in &deps.libraries {
    println!("  {} => {} (found: {})", name, lib.path.display(), lib.found());
}

use lddtree::DependencyAnalyzer;
use std::path::PathBuf;

// Analyze with a custom sysroot and additional library paths
let deps = DependencyAnalyzer::new("/path/to/sysroot".into())
    .library_paths(vec![PathBuf::from("/extra/lib")])
    .analyze("path/to/binary")
    .unwrap();

Command line utility

There is also a simple CLI utility which can be installed via:

cargo install lddtree

Usage: lddtree <pathname> [root]

• pathname is the path to a shared library or executable (ELF, Mach-O, or PE).
• root is an optional path to a sysroot directory.

License

This work is released under the MIT license. A copy of the license is provided in the LICENSE file.