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

If you have the source code and don't want to go through all the code for this, you can generate map file while compiling to know which static libraries are linked.

For example g++ -Xlinker -Map=a.map main.c, check the map file for linked static library information.