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10798 :: Binaries does not correctly display dependencies

• CardealRusso (orginal) [2023-12-22T20:48:03+01:00] view original

  I think that absolutely everything I've compiled with nim to date has had this problem. But for example I used: https://github.com/nim-lang/x11/blob/master/examples/x11ex.nim

  linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fff34330000)

  libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007fe4c5e7d000)

  libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007fe4c5e78000)

  libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007fe4c5ce2000)

  /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007fe4c5eac000)

  No mention of the x11 libs.

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• Yardanico (orginal) [2023-12-22T20:49:29+01:00] view original

  That's because when you use dynlib, it loads libraries dynamically with dlopen and doesn't link against them, you can manually link against the libraries you use so they'll appear in ldd.

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• Araq (orginal) [2023-12-22T21:38:38+01:00] view original

  IMHO your tools don't correct display dependencies, full stop. Libraries can be loaded dynamically, it's a feature of the OS, widely used by Python, Lua, Ruby, Perl, ...

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• Yardanico (orginal) [2023-12-22T23:57:05+01:00] view original

  And to add a bit, there's an option for x11 specifically to link directly against the system libraries, see https://github.com/nim-lang/x11/blob/master/x11/x11pragma.nim#L4 - just pass -d:use_pkg_config when compiling your program.

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• enthus1ast (orginal) [2023-12-23T00:23:31+01:00] view original

  I use 'strace' quite often to really see what a binary loads from disk.

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