Dependencies is a rewrite of the legacy software Dependency Walker which was shipped along Windows SDKs, but whose developement stopped around 2006. Dependencies can help Windows developers troubleshooting their dll load dependencies issues.

• v1.6 :
  • Add appx packaging
• v1.5 :
  • Support of Sxs parsing
  • Support of api set schema parsing
  • API and Modules list can be filtered
• v1.0 -- Initial release

NB : due to limitations on /clr compilation, Dependencies needs Visual C++ Redistributable installed to run properly.

Dependencies is currently shipped as a binary (no installer present). Just uncompress the archive and click on it. Since the binary is not signed, SmartScreen might scream at runtime. Dependencies also bundle ClrPhTester.exe, a dumpbin-like executable used to test for non-regressions.

Since v1.6, Dependencies is also packaged as an appx package (the Windows equivalent of a .deb file) which can be installed locally. However, you also need to add the test certificate DependenciesAppx_TemporaryKey.cer to your cert hive.

Dependencies currently does not recursively resolve child imports when parsing a new PE since it can be really memory-hungry to do so ( it can over a GB even for "simple" PEs ). This behaviour can be overriden (app-wide) via a property located in "Options->Properties->Tree build behaviour".

Tree build behaviours available :

• ChildOnly (default) : only process PE child imports and nothing beyond.
• RecursiveOnlyOnDirectImports : do not process delayload dlls.
• Recursive : Full recursive analysis. You better have time and RAM on your hands if you activate this setting :

At the moment, Dependencies recreates features and "features" of depends.exe, which means :

• Only direct, forwarded and delay load dependencies are supported. Dynamic loading via LoadLibrary are not supported (and probably won't ever be).
• Support of api set schema redirection since 1.5
• Checks between Api Imports and Exports.
• Minimal support of sxs private manifests search only.

Special thanks to :

• ProcessHacker2 for :
  • phlib, which does the heavy lifting for processing PE informations.
  • peview, a powerful and lightweight PE informations viewer.
• Dragablz a C#/XAML library which implement dockable and dragable UI elements, and can recreate the MDI programming model in WPF.
• @aionescu, @zodiacon and Quarkslab for their public infos on ApiSets schema.
• Thomas levesque's blog which pretty much solved all my WPF programming issues. His AutoGridSort is used in this project
• Venkatesh Mookkan for it's FilterControl for ListView used in this project