Inspecting dependencies of static libs / executables

Question

Hi,

I have a rather large project with a whole bunch of linked dependencies. The problem is that there's a dependency getting linked to which was compiled with VS 2005 and links with the vc80 debug crt, while I've migrated to VS 2008. The problem is that this also means that I must have the vc80 debug crt installed, something which I'd rather avoid since I have no use of having VS 2005 installed anymore. I'd love to be able to track down the culprit and avoid recompiling the entire project and all dependencies from scratch, so, is there perhaps a convinient way to find out which dependency is linking to the vc80 debug crt?

Answer 1

http://www.dependencywalker.com/ should probably help.

Answer 2

I'm not sure it will work for you, but give Dependency Walker a look.

Answer 3

It seems dumpbin does the trick with the -directives switch, very handy. It displays various helpful information about the lib file, amongst other things all linked dependencies and their versions.