Get list of static libraries used in an executable

Question

Since ldd lists only the dynamic libraries, is there a way to extract the information about the static libraries used to create the executable?

Answer 1

ldd shows dynamically linked libraries

nm shows the symbols in the file.

To see which symbols come from static libraries requires running nm against those libraries to get a list of the symbols (functions, etc.) in them, then comparing them to what your list of symbols from nm .

You compare lists with the comm command. See man comm for details.

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