tool to check dependency of a .lib file

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Hello,
Anyone knows which tool is able to find out the dependency of a .lib file.
Seems Depends.exe only works for .dll.

Thanks,

Jazz
 
DLL is runtime dependence. lib is link time dependence.
any linker should report a link error if a required lib is missing.
 
DLL is runtime dependence. lib is link time dependence.
any linker should report a link error if a required lib is missing.
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Having to link to determine this seems like a bit of overkill. The
original poster asked for a tool, not a bulldozer. Depends.exe is a
great tool-- it's lightweight, does one thing, and does that one thing
REALLY well. It takes seconds (at most) to make depends.exe give you
the info you want. The linker is absolutely the opposite - it requires
a LOT of fiddling to to start getting some info, and may not give you
all the info back unless you have references to every function in the
..lib.

Nathan Mates
 
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