Getting List of Static Libraries used in an executable

Question

Since ldd lists only the dynamic libraries. Is there a way to extract the info. about static libraries used to create the executable ?

TIA, Saurabh

Answer 1

No, the names of the libraries are discarded during the linking process. However, if your executable contains debug information (i.e. it was compiled with the -g flag), you may be able to get information from that.

Answer 2

Unless a given compiler stores some sort of meta data inside the binary then, no. A static library is code that is directly compiled into the binary.

Answer 3

See here.