Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] question: how to use copydlldeps.py and what it is?

[Martin Müllenhaupt]

Hi Hamza,

On Wednesday, June 03, 2015 10:50:58 PM Hamza Alloush wrote:
> does it dependancy walk all dll's required for exectable to ship as
> standalone program?

Yes, that's its purpose. 

> how do i use it?

You invoke it with 
copydlldeps.py TARGETDIR \
  -C CHECKDIR \
  -L LIBDIR

It will copy all needed dll files into TARGETDIR directory.
All PE files (eg .dll and .exe) in -C specified paths will be checked for 
their dependencies. All needed .dll files will recursively be searched in the 
-L paths.

For example if you build your executable in '/path/to/mypath' and want to copy 
all needed dlls from '/path/to/mxe/usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/bin' into its 
directory, you will invoke it with 
copydlldeps.py '/path/to/mypath' -C '/path/to/mypath' -L 
'/path/to/mxe/usr/i686-w64-mingw32.shared/bin'.

I hope it works for you.

Martin Müllenhaupt