Get list of static libraries used in an executable

ldd <exe filename> shows dynamically linked libraries

nm <exe filename> shows the symbols in the file.

To see which symbols come from static libraries requires running nm against those libraries to get a list of the symbols (functions, etc.) in them, then comparing them to what your list of symbols from nm <exe filename>.

You compare lists with the comm command. See man comm for details.

This was taken from this forum here.

No, the names of the libraries are discarded during the linking process. However, if your executable contains debug information (i.e. it was compiled with the -g flag), you may be able to get information from that.

Unless a given compiler stores some sort of meta data inside the binary then, no. A static library is code that is directly compiled into the binary.