{{Other uses|LDD (disambiguation){{!}}LDD}}{{lowercase|ldd}}ldd (List Dynamic Dependencies) is a *nix utility that prints the shared libraries required by each program or shared library specified on the command line.[1] It was developed by Roland McGrath and Ulrich Drepper.[2]
If some shared library is missing for any program, that program won't come up.
Security
ldd is a shell script that executes the program given as argument, and shouldn't be used with untrusted binaries. The ldd manual page suggests to use as alternative the following command, using the objdump and grep utilities :
Usage
References
1. ^{{cite web |url=http://linux.die.net/man/1/ldd |title=ldd(1) – Linux man page|work=die.net |accessdate=December 28, 2011}} 2. ^{{cite web |url=http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/sipb/project/phone-project/bin/arm-linux-ldd|title=ldd Source Code|work=stuff.mit.edu|accessdate=March 26, 2014}}