Soot Installation Guide - Command Line Tool

Soot Installation Guide

Download

Before you install soot your machine must have properly installed java. To install soot as command line tool you can download latest version of Jar file (Soot.Jar) or nightly build version(Soot-trunk.jar) from here. Latest version includes all other jar files so you don't need to download any other jars.

SET CLASSPATH

Before you are able to use soot you must set the classpath to various java jars and soot jar. To set jars on classpath for Windows users go to: 

Control Panel -> System -> Advance System Setting 

-> Environment Variables -> CLASSPATH

Find your Java installation folder Normally(C:\Program Files\Java\) and set following jars on classpath :

C:\Program Files\Java\jre7\lib\rt.jar;

C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_25\jre\lib\jce.jar;

C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_25\lib\tools.jar;

C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.8.0_25\lib\dt.jar;

C:\soot\soot-2.5.0.jar (This contains your Soot jar file Directory).

soot jar file directory is not necessary, you can use soot jar file directly to your command line.