Libtree

Crystal Contrib
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libtree is a useful tool to figure out which dynamic libraries a binary executable depends on.
It’s similar to ldd, but prints a tree view indicating dependency nesting. It also shows how shared libraries have been found.

For example, this is the output for a build of the Crystal compiler (at version 1.11.1, with LLVM 14):

$ libtree .build/crystal
.build/crystal
├── libpcre2-8.so.0 [runpath]
├── libgc.so.1 [runpath]
├── libevent-2.1.so.7 [runpath]
├── libLLVM-14.so.1 [ld.so.conf]
│   ├── libffi.so.8 [ld.so.conf]
│   ├── libtinfo.so.6 [ld.so.conf]
│   ├── libz.so.1 [ld.so.conf]
│   ├── libxml2.so.2 [ld.so.conf]
│   │   ├── libicuuc.so.70 [ld.so.conf]
│   │   │   └── libicudata.so.70 [ld.so.conf]
│   │   ├── liblzma.so.5 [ld.so.conf]
│   │   └── libz.so.1 [ld.so.conf]
│   └── libedit.so.2 [ld.so.conf]
│       ├── libtinfo.so.6 [ld.so.conf]
│       └── libbsd.so.0 [ld.so.conf]
│           └── libmd.so.0 [ld.so.conf]
└── librt.so.1 [ld.so.conf]

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