How do I detect the DLLs required by an application?

Question

In a nutshell: I want to do the same thing \"Dependency Walker\" does.

Is there any Win32 API function which can enumerate the dependencies of a EXE and/or DLL file?

Answer 1

User @blue... eluded to Dependency Walker. When using Dependency Walker, after opening the file you can see the base requirements that are used. Only when executing the program and exercising all of its functions can you find all of the dynamically-loaded DLLs.

Sometimes the best thing to do if you can is ask the developer what DLLs are required. An application may only load some DLLs when absolutely needed. e.g. Loading faultrep.dll, for custom Windows Error Reporting, when it is about to crash.