otool

otool is a tool that, among other things, can show which shared libraries an application needs to run (similar to "ldd" on Linux).

When to use otool

otool is useful when you want to run an application on PureDarwin, but are not sure what libraries it needs.

How to use otool

Assume we want to know which libraries are needed to run bash. Simply run:

otool -L /Volumes/PureDarwin/bin/bash

It will give us

/usr/lib/libncurses.5.4.dylib (compatibility version 5.4.0, current version 5.4.0)
/usr/lib/libiconv.2.dylib (compatibility version 7.0.0, current version 7.0.0)
/usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 111.0.0)
/usr/lib/libgcc_s.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0)

So, we need to have these libaries installed in our PureDarwin system in order to be able to run bash.

Use chroot

In order to further test, you can use chroot. (To be described)