[Soot-list] Issues with Android Instrumentation Tutorial

[kuza55]

Hi,

I'm trying to get the android instrumentation tutorial working:
https://github.com/Sable/soot/wiki/Instrumenting-Android-Apps-with-Soot

I'm using nightly builds I download yesterday.

The first thing that happens when I try to run that example is that I
get an error about loading java.lang.Object, so I've followed the
advice to try and added rt.jar to the soot class path, which seems to
resolve that error, however I have not been able to fix the subsequent
errors, and I'm not sure if those errors are related to how I resolved
the java.lang.Object loading error.

If I add this to the AndroidInstrument.java file:

Scene.v().setSootClassPath("C:\\Program Files\\Java\\jdk1.8.0_31\\jre\\lib\\");

Then I get errors loading class files on every apk I try and I'm
pretty confident they're in there since apktool finds them:

soot.SootResolver$SootClassNotFoundException: couldn't find class:
com.cps.service.Tools.ExecuteAsRoot (is your soot-class-path set
properly?)
at soot.SootResolver.bringToHierarchy(SootResolver.java:228)
at soot.SootResolver.bringToSignatures(SootResolver.java:266)
at soot.SootResolver.processResolveWorklist(SootResolver.java:170)
at soot.SootResolver.resolveClass(SootResolver.java:131)
at soot.Scene.loadClass(Scene.java:725)
at soot.Scene.loadClassAndSupport(Scene.java:710)
at soot.Scene.loadNecessaryClasses(Scene.java:1448)
at soot.Main.run(Main.java:243)
at soot.Main.main(Main.java:147)
at com.blah.analyzer.AndroidInstrument.main(AndroidInstrument.java:98)
at com.blah.analyzer.AndroidInstrument.instrument(AndroidInstrument.java:35)
at com.blah.analyzer.App.main(App.java:32)

If I try to set a -cp parameter, I get

soot.SootResolver$SootClassNotFoundException: couldn't find class:
android.app.Activity (is your soot-class-path set properly?)

If I try to use -pp I get an odd error that seems to indicate the docs
are wrong about what -pp does:

soot.SootResolver$SootClassNotFoundException: couldn't find class:
C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_31\jre\lib\ (is your soot-class-path
set properly?)

I'd appreciate any assistance in figuring out what I need to do to get
that example working.

 - Alex