[Soot-list] Experience getting started with soot

[Prof. Laurie HENDREN]

We will be putting a new release of Soot together after classes
end this term,  and we will take note of your suggestions
for that release.

Thanks,

Laurie


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On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 thjacobs at umich.edu wrote:

> The purpose of this email is to let those involved with this project know about
> some of the difficulties I had trying to get started with soot so that
> hopefully the problems that do exist can be corrected, and you can all help the
> next guy.
>
> The first problem I came upon was with trying to compile the eclipse plugin
> source code. I didn't realize that I needed to download the extended libraries
> from eclipse. Does it say anything about this on your website? If it does, then
> its totally my bad for not reading your instructions. If not, it might be
> helpful to put something up about it. Also, as a side note, when I did realize
> I could get these packages through eclipse (duh) the eclipse download didn't
> work (timed out. Tried 3 or 4 times yesterday, and just tried again today). Not
> your problem, I know, but frustrating.
>
> Second problem I had was that it seems like the jasmin code has been changed
> from the version most of you are using. I got the latest of soot using
> subversion and tried to compile with the jasmin jar, but it wouldn't work. In
> particular, the JasminOutputStream class had bugs. I actually had to download
> the Jasmin source, fix THAT (they're missing a case statement for handling
> double backslashes), save the data from the JasminOutputStream to a temporary
> file, and feed that file to the changed Main class of Jasmin.
>
> I hope this is helpful to you.
>
> Much thanks to Jennifer Lhotak and Patrick Lam for getting me straightened out
> with this.
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