COPYDEPS(1)

✨ COPYDEPS(1) ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the User Commands Manual section, this is the copydeps page and it's lowkey a lifesaver 🫶

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💖 NAME 💖

copydeps — copy a program's dependencies (the .so / .dll files, you know the ones)

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

copydeps [OPTIONS] EXECUTABLE [TARGET-DIR]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so like. copydeps is this tiny lil program that finds and copies every single .so / .dll file your program needs in order to actually run. no cap. it's giving "packing your whole friend group into one car for the road trip" energy — and it's super useful when you wanna bundle an application together with all its dependencies 💅

EXECUTABLE can be any one of these supported formats, periodt:

• 32-bit ELF
• 64-bit ELF
• i386 Microsoft Windows executable
• x86_64 Microsoft Windows executable

TARGET-DIR is the directory the .so / .dll files get copied into. and when you just… don't say it? it defaults to the directory of the target executable. she's flexible like that ✨

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🎀 OPTIONS 🎀

• --dry-run — just prints the list of dependencies, doesn't actually copy any of the .so / .dll files. window shopping, basically 🛍️
• --exedir — adds the directory of the executable into the .so / .dll resolve paths. and here's the tea: files found in the exedir are preferred over files found anywhere else 👑
• --help — prints a short help message and dips out. bye 👋
• --ignore PATTERN — adds the regular expression PATTERN to the ignore-list. that's .so / .dll names that should not be resolved nor copied over. we're leaving them at home 🙈
• --no-clobber — do not overwrite .so / .dll files that already exist in the target directory. respectful. we love to see it 💜
• --override PATTERN — adds the regular expression PATTERN to the override-list, aka .so / .dll names that should always be resolved and copied over. and heads up: overrides take precedence over ignores 🔥
• --search-dir DIRECTORY — adds DIRECTORY to the list of paths to search when resolving .so / .dll names. user-specified directories take precedence over system paths, as they should 💅
• --verbose — prints the names of the dependencies as they're being copied over. narrating the whole thing, main character energy 🎬
• --version — prints version information and exits 🏷️

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🌈 EXIT STATUS 🌈

• 0 — Success. slay 💖
• 1 — An error in program arguments. you said something weird bestie 😭
• 2 — Failed to parse EXECUTABLE, or it's an unsupported format 💀
• 3 — Failed to parse one of the .so / .dll files — doesn't matter if it's a direct dependency of EXECUTABLE or a dependency of another library 🫠
• 4 — Failed to resolve one or more of the dependency names 🔍
• 5 — An error occurred when copying one or more of the files 🚨

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⭐ SEE ALSO ⭐

ldd(1), objdump(1)

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this lil cutie comes from the User Commands Manual and is dated 2020-06-28 — go forth and bundle your deps, ily, mwah 💋✨