Compilation error - Could not resolve dependencies for soot-4.7.0-SNAPSHOT

[draftyfrog]

HI,

I am trying to build the latest FlowDroid version with mvn install -DskipTests
and getting the following error:

[INFO] Scanning for projects...
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Reactor Build Order:
[INFO] 
[INFO] FlowDroid Parent Module                                            [pom]
[INFO] soot-infoflow                                                      [jar]
[INFO] soot-infoflow-android                                              [jar]
[INFO] StubDroid                                                          [jar]
[INFO] FlowDroid Command Line Util                                        [jar]
[INFO] soot-infoflow-integration                                          [jar]
[INFO] 
[INFO] ---------------< de.fraunhofer.sit.sse.flowdroid:parent >---------------
[INFO] Building FlowDroid Parent Module 2.15.0-SNAPSHOT                   [1/6]
[INFO]   from pom.xml
[INFO] --------------------------------[ pom ]---------------------------------
[INFO] 
[INFO] --- install:3.1.2:install (default-install) @ parent ---
[INFO] Installing /home/FlowDroid/pom.xml to /root/.m2/repository/de/fraunhofer/sit/sse/flowdroid/parent/2.15.0-SNAPSHOT/parent-2.15.0-SNAPSHOT.pom
[INFO] 
[INFO] -----------< de.fraunhofer.sit.sse.flowdroid:soot-infoflow >------------
[INFO] Building soot-infoflow 2.15.0-SNAPSHOT                             [2/6]
[INFO]   from soot-infoflow/pom.xml
[INFO] --------------------------------[ jar ]---------------------------------
Downloading from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/com/google/guava/guava/maven-metadata.xml
Downloading from sonatype-snapshot: https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/com/google/guava/guava/maven-metadata.xml
Progress (1): 4.1 kB
Progress (1): 5.7 kB
                    
Downloaded from central: https://repo.maven.apache.org/maven2/com/google/guava/guava/maven-metadata.xml (5.7 kB at 22 kB/s)
Downloading from sonatype-snapshot: https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/org/soot-oss/soot/4.7.0-SNAPSHOT/maven-metadata.xml
Downloading from sonatype-snapshot: https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/org/soot-oss/soot/4.7.0-SNAPSHOT/soot-4.7.0-SNAPSHOT.pom
[WARNING] The POM for org.soot-oss:soot:jar:4.7.0-SNAPSHOT is missing, no dependency information available
Downloading from sonatype-snapshot: https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots/org/soot-oss/soot/4.7.0-SNAPSHOT/soot-4.7.0-SNAPSHOT.jar
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Reactor Summary for FlowDroid Parent Module 2.15.0-SNAPSHOT:
[INFO] 
[INFO] FlowDroid Parent Module ............................ SUCCESS [  0.107 s]
[INFO] soot-infoflow ...................................... FAILURE [  1.215 s]
[INFO] soot-infoflow-android .............................. SKIPPED
[INFO] StubDroid .......................................... SKIPPED
[INFO] FlowDroid Command Line Util ........................ SKIPPED
[INFO] soot-infoflow-integration .......................... SKIPPED
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] BUILD FAILURE
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[INFO] Total time:  1.388 s
[INFO] Finished at: 2025-12-04T08:46:53Z
[INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
[ERROR] Failed to execute goal on project soot-infoflow: Could not resolve dependencies for project de.fraunhofer.sit.sse.flowdroid:soot-infoflow:jar:2.15.0-SNAPSHOT
[ERROR] dependency: org.soot-oss:soot:jar:4.7.0-SNAPSHOT (compile)
[ERROR] 	Could not find artifact org.soot-oss:soot:jar:4.7.0-SNAPSHOT in sonatype-snapshot (https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots)
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] -> [Help 1]
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] To see the full stack trace of the errors, re-run Maven with the -e switch.
[ERROR] Re-run Maven using the -X switch to enable full debug logging.
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] For more information about the errors and possible solutions, please read the following articles:
[ERROR] [Help 1] http://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/MAVEN/DependencyResolutionException
[ERROR] 
[ERROR] After correcting the problems, you can resume the build with the command
[ERROR]   mvn <args> -rf :soot-infoflow

Do you know how to resolve this? Is there some additional flag I should be using to build it?

My setup is:

$ mvn --version
Apache Maven 3.9.9
Maven home: /usr/share/maven
Java version: 21.0.9, vendor: Debian, runtime: /usr/lib/jvm/java-21-openjdk-amd64
Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
OS name: "linux", version: "6.1.0-37-amd64", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"

Attaching the log of mvn install -DskipTests -U -X as well.

fd-build-fail.txt

[StevenArzt]

To build the develop version of FlowDroid, you need the develop version of Soot which you must build first.

We'll hopefully release new versions of Soot and FlowDroid soon to avoid this problem.

[draftyfrog]

OK, thank you! I have built develop version of FlowDroid with the given POM before, but I guess Soot's version has changed in-between.