Sootup beginner question: What maven repo do you use for sootup?

[Gao-Chuan]

I want to use the latest soot up but I kept meeting this error. The same thing happens on version 1.2.0 too. I'm using mavencentral as my maven repo.

Here is the error:

Execution failed for task ':compileJava'.
> Could not resolve all files for configuration ':compileClasspath'.
   > Could not find com.googlecode.d2j:dex-tools:2.2-SNAPSHOT.
     Searched in the following locations:
       - https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/com/googlecode/d2j/dex-tools/2.2-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml
       - https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/com/googlecode/d2j/dex-tools/2.2-SNAPSHOT/dex-tools-2.2-SNAPSHOT.pom
     Required by:
         project : > org.soot-oss:sootup.java.bytecode:1.1.0

Possible solution:
 - Declare repository providing the artifact, see the documentation at https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/declaring_repositories.html

[jpstotz]

That is the dex2jar artifact from https://github.com/ThexXTURBOXx/dex2jar.
It is not available in one of the traditional artifact repositories, instead it is included via https://Jitpack.io:

<repository>
    <id>jitpack.io</id>
    <url>https://jitpack.io</url>
</repository>

[JonasKlauke]

Yeah the errors realted to dex2jar are quite annoying. We are working on another approach without dex2jar

[shaoyuchu]

I would like to share my solution to a similar problem I encountered while adding SootUp version 1.1.2 using Gradle. I resolved the problem by adding the following block to settings.gradle

dependencyResolutionManagement {
    repositoriesMode.set(RepositoriesMode.FAIL_ON_PROJECT_REPOS)
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
        maven { url 'https://jitpack.io' }
    }
}

and the following to build.gradle

dependencies {
    implementation 'com.github.ThexXTURBOXx:dex2jar:v74'
}