copydeps - Man Page

copydeps is a small program that can be used to find and copy all .so / .dll files needed by a program to run. This can be useful when you want to bundle an application together will all its dependencies.

EXECUTABLE can be one of the following supported formats:
· 32-bit ELF
· 64-bit ELF
· i386 Microsoft Windows executable
· x86_64 Microsoft Windows executable

TARGET-DIR specifies the directory to copy the .so / .dll files to. When omitted, defaults to the directory of the target executable.

--dry-run

Print the list of dependencies without actually copying the .so / .dll files.

--exedir

Include the directory of the executable in the .so / .dll resolve paths. Files found in the exedir are preferred over those found anywhere else.

--help

Print a short help message and exit.

--ignore PATTERN

Add the regular expression PATTERN to the ignore-list (.so / .dll names that should not be resolved nor copied over).

--no-clobber

Do not overwrite .so / .dll files already existing in the target directory.

--override PATTERN

Add the regular expression PATTERN to the override-list (.so / .dll names that should always be resolved and copied over). Overrides take precedence over ignores.

--search-dir DIRECTORY

Add DIRECTORY to the list of paths to search when resolving .so / .dll names. User-specified directories take precedence over system paths.

--verbose

Print the names of the dependencies as they're being copied over.

--version

Print version information and exit.

0

Success.

1

An error in program arguments.

2

Failed to parse EXECUTABLE, or it's an unsupported format.

3

Failed to parse one of the .so / .dll files, be it a direct dependency of EXECUTABLE, or a dependency of another library.

4

Failed to resolve one or more of the dependency names.

5

An error occurred when copying one or more of the files.

ldd(1), objdump(1)