I am looking for a CLI tool that will list all of the DLL files referenced in the Import section of a Windows executable file. Back in the day, Windows shipped with a GUI tool called QuickView that provided this information. However, I need a CLI-based application that will provide this information and preferrably a free / open-source application if possible.
After asking this question and doing some searching, I concluded that the easiest way to get a program like this was to write one. So I did.
The end result was a program named PEImportList (released under the MIT license). It does nothing more than open a PE executable (x86 only at the moment) and read the import data, printing a list of DLL names to the console.
The code will run on any platform and can be found in this single file here:
Simply invoke the program by passing the executable as a parameter. If you want only the DLL names printed, then stick the -l option in front of the executable parameter.