How to determine a windows executables DLL dependencies programmatically?

Question

How to determine what DLL\'s a binary depends on using programmatic methods?

To be clear, I am not trying to determine the DLL dependencies of the running exec, bu

Answer 1

Dependency Walker can do this by using the profile menu, if you have a target executable. Simply load the executable, tell it to start profiling, and it'll list all the modules loaded while executing the program.

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