The output of ldd (32Bit) in cygwin 1.7.22 is not as expected if a single dependency cannot be found.
Correct output (all dependencies present): $ ldd Qt5Core.dll ntdll.dll => /cygdrive/c/Windows/SysWOW64/ntdll.dll (0x778b0000) kernel32.dll => /cygdrive/c/Windows/syswow64/kernel32.dll (0x76eb0000) KERNELBASE.dll => /cygdrive/c/Windows/syswow64/KERNELBASE.dll (0x76be0000) USER32.dll => /cygdrive/c/Windows/syswow64/USER32.dll (0x75110000) GDI32.dll => /cygdrive/c/Windows/syswow64/GDI32.dll (0x75330000) LPK.dll => /cygdrive/c/Windows/syswow64/LPK.dll (0x75100000) USP10.dll => /cygdrive/c/Windows/syswow64/USP10.dll (0x753c0000) msvcrt.dll => /cygdrive/c/Windows/syswow64/msvcrt.dll (0x76ca0000) ADVAPI32.dll => /cygdrive/c/Windows/syswow64/ADVAPI32.dll (0x76900000) sechost.dll => /cygdrive/c/Windows/SysWOW64/sechost.dll (0x75490000) RPCRT4.dll => /cygdrive/c/Windows/syswow64/RPCRT4.dll (0x76520000) SspiCli.dll => /cygdrive/c/Windows/syswow64/SspiCli.dll (0x74f90000) CRYPTBASE.dll => /cygdrive/c/Windows/syswow64/CRYPTBASE.dll (0x74f80000) ole32.dll => /cygdrive/c/Windows/syswow64/ole32.dll (0x76d50000) WS2_32.dll => /cygdrive/c/Windows/syswow64/WS2_32.dll (0x76100000) NSI.dll => /cygdrive/c/Windows/syswow64/NSI.dll (0x76c90000) icuin51.dll => /home/user/Qt-5.1.0/x86/icuin51.dll (0x49e80000) icuuc51.dll => /home/user/Qt-5.1.0/x86/icuuc51.dll (0x4a0f0000) icudt51.dll => /home/user/Qt-5.1.0/x86/icudt51.dll (0x7b0000) MSVCR100.dll => /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/MSVCR100.dll (0x74200000) MSVCP100.dll => /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/MSVCP100.dll (0x742c0000) IMM32.DLL => /cygdrive/c/Windows/system32/IMM32.DLL (0x750a0000) MSCTF.dll => /cygdrive/c/Windows/syswow64/MSCTF.dll (0x76830000) Questionable output (a single dependency, icuin51.dll, is missing): $ ldd Qt5Core.dll ntdll.dll => /cygdrive/c/Windows/SysWOW64/ntdll.dll (0x778b0000) kernel32.dll => /cygdrive/c/Windows/syswow64/kernel32.dll (0x76eb0000) KERNELBASE.dll => /cygdrive/c/Windows/syswow64/KERNELBASE.dll (0x76be0000) ??? => ??? (0x66d10000) ??? => ??? (0x75110000) ??? => ??? (0x75330000) ??? => ??? (0x75100000) ??? => ??? (0x753c0000) ??? => ??? (0x76ca0000) ??? => ??? (0x76900000) ??? => ??? (0x75490000) ??? => ??? (0x76520000) ??? => ??? (0x74f90000) ??? => ??? (0x74f80000) ??? => ??? (0x76d50000) ??? => ??? (0x76100000) ??? => ??? (0x76c90000) My intention was to find out the dependencies of Qt5Core.dll in order to satisfy them. This seems not possible in Windows. The Linux version of ldd in this case prints a line like the following: icuin51.so => not found It would be great if the Windows version of ldd could behave the same (or at least similar). Regards, Peter. -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple