Managing your images

The Images pane shows a tree of all the files in your image, sorted by type:

binaries
shared libraries — A shared library is linked in at compile time so that the linker will resolve the symbols it needs, particularly when they're not included into the program. These libraries are listed in the NEEDED section of the main application (nto<cpu>-objdump -x displays the contents of this section).
symbolic links
DLLs — A DLL has its symbols resolved through dlopen and dlsym, and does not need to be specified at compile time. These libraries aren't listed in the NEEDED section.
other files
directories

Note:

The System Builder can determine which shared libraries are required since it inspects the NEEDED section for the binaries. Since DLLs don't get listed in the NEEDED section, they're not automatically included. If they exist in the NEEDED section, every DLL would have to be linked into every server (i.e. io-net would have to load every driver at runtime, as well as every protocol stack.) Alternately, you'll have to rebuild everything to specify all of the libraries you're using. Ensure that you include the proper driver; otherwise, you'll have to rebuild.