Who Ya Gonna Call? Using DUMPBIN for DLL Requirements

Dear Dr. GUI:

I'm looking for a tool that can say to me which DLLs are used by an EXE. Under OS/2, there is one named CHK4DLL. Do you know something about that?

Thank you.

phm

Dr. GUI replies:

OS who? Oh, yeah—Dr. GUI remembers Presentation Manager.

Sometimes when you change specialties in medicine, the names of things change. So it is with GUI programming: The utility that does what you need has a different name from the OS/2 utility (and theWin16 and MS-DOS utilities). It's now called DUMPBIN. It. It comes with Visual C++ and has a bunch of command line options, all documented in the DUMPBIN reference in the Visual C++ documentation and in the MSDN Library (Product Documentation, Languages, Visual C++ 4.1, Visual C++ Books, User's Guides, Visual C++ User's Guide). This tool is just what the doctor ordered for figuring out what DLLs you need to include in your setup.