[Soot-list] Beginner Soot CLI Usage / Setup

[Patrick Lam]

Try this:

https://github.com/soot-oss/soot/issues/1101


On Tue, Dec 22, 2020 at 7:00 PM Gokce Dilek <gokcedilek99 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am an undergraduate student at UBC, Vancouver. I have recently started
> looking into Soot for a research project, but I have been having some
> difficulties in running it from the command line. I followed various guides
> from here <https://www.brics.dk/SootGuide/sootsurvivorsguide.pdf>, here
> <https://github.com/soot-oss/soot/wiki/Introduction:-Soot-as-a-command-line-tool#soots-command-line>,
> and here <http://www.bodden.de/2008/08/21/soot-command-line/>, but kept
> on getting similar error messages, thus, I wanted to ask about the
> configuration details to the group. I am describing the steps I followed
> below:
>
> I installed Soot from here
> <https://soot-build.cs.uni-paderborn.de/public/origin/master/soot/soot-master/3.0.1/build/sootclasses-trunk-jar-with-dependencies.jar>.
> The jar file is located at /Users/gokcedilek/Downloads. I created a
> sample Java app called A.java in the same directory, which should just
> print "hello world". My rt.jar file is located at
> /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_131.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/rt.jar.
> And, I am using macOS Catalina 10.15.5. Based on these, I tried various
> commands to run Soot, I am summarizing my main steps below:
>
> 1) java -cp sootclasses-trunk-jar-with-dependencies.jar soot.Main -f J A
> --- resulted in java.lang.RuntimeException: Error: cannot find rt.jar.
>
>
> 2) To specify rt.jar: java -cp
> sootclasses-trunk-jar-with-dependencies.jar soot.Main -cp
> /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_131.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/rt.jar
> -f J A --- resulted in soot.SootResolver$SootClassNotFoundException:
> couldn't find class: A (is your soot-class-path set properly?)
>
>
> 3) To specify classpath: java -cp
> sootclasses-trunk-jar-with-dependencies.jar soot.Main -cp .:
> /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_131.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/rt.jar
> -f J A and java -cp sootclasses-trunk-jar-with-dependencies.jar soot.Main
> -cp
> /Users/gokcedilek/Downloads:/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_131.jdk/Contents/Home/jre/lib/rt.jar
> -f J A --- both resulted in java.lang.NullPointerException, and I could
> not solve this error further by googling and trying.
>
>
> I would appreciate if you could point me to what I might be missing, or
> other guides that could be helpful. Thank you very much in advance.
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Gokce Dilek
>
>
>
>
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