Re: Soot on OS X?

[Rohan Lloyd <rohanl@rohanl.com>]

On Thursday, June 26, 2003, at 01:31  AM, Will Benton wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to run Soot on an OS X machine, but I get the following 
> error:
>
> Soot started on Wed Jun 25 10:00:12 CDT 2003
> Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: couldn't find 
> type: java.lang.Object (is your soot-class-path set properly?)
>         at 
> soot.SootResolver.resolveClassAndSupportClasses(SootResolver.java:92)
>         at soot.Scene.loadClassAndSupport(Scene.java:254)
>         at soot.Scene.loadNecessaryClasses(Scene.java:644)
>         at soot.Main.run(Main.java:170)
>         at soot.Main.main(Main.java:152)
>
> I can run other Java programs with no problem.  Unfortunately, Apple 
> has repackaged the java classes, so I haven't the slightest where I 
> can find a jar file containing java.lang.Object and friends.  (There 
> is no "rt.jar").  Is anyone having any luck in this configuration?  If 
> so, what do I need to do?

Do you use fink? If so, I've written a fink package for soot. All you 
have to do is go:

  $ fink install soot

If not, make sure 
/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Classes/classes.jar is in 
your class path.

--
Rohan Lloyd