Building ABCDump

I spent ages trying to get abcdump to build, and I finally figured it out! Doh, it only works with Tamarin-Central and not tamarin-tracing. Without further adieu, the steps to get abcdump to work on OS X:

1) Get Tamarin-Central, and build it with the release

cd tamarin-central
xcodebuild -configuration Release -project platform/mac/shell/shell.xcodeproj

2) Get ASC

$ svn co http://opensource.adobe.com/svn/opensource/flex/sdk/trunk/modules/asc <local-directory>
$ cd asc/build/java
$ ant
...
jar:
[jar] Building jar asc\lib\asc.jar
$ java -jar asc.jar
# shows usage

3) put asc.jar in Tamarin-Central/utils/asc.jar
4) Build ByteArray.as

cd Tamarin-Central/shell
java -jar ../utils/asc.jar -import ../core/Builtin.abc ByteArray.as

5) Build abcdump

cd Tamarin-CEntral/utils
java -jar asc.jar -exe ../platform/mac/shell/build/Release/shell -import ../core/Builtin.abc -import ../shell/ByteArray.abc abcdump.as
abcdump.abc, 28715 bytes written
abcdump.exe, 1504179 bytes written

6) chmod +x abcdump.exe
7) ./abcdump.exe /path/To/yourScript.abc
8) ????
9) Profit!

For some reason, if I copy the abcdump.exe to /usr/bin, it won't execute :( But other than that it works.

Comments

[Dan Schaffer]

We should be able to get abcdump to work on tamarin-tracing. Some of the shell apis are different. (for example ByteArray). Conditional compilation in asc could sort out the differences.

[edwsmith]

I just fixed abcdump in TT

[pfleiderer]

Bug in ABCdump?!

In my SWF there is a flash variable with strings and doubles. In the dumpfile there are just the strings and not the doubles: they are told to be 0 (zero), what is not correct!

I’m quite sure that the bug is in class MethodInfo, function dump, then "case OP_pushdouble:"

If you could help me to find the bug and maybe fix it I would be very happy and appreciate it !!!

Thanks for any help!!
Joe

Some lines of the dump:

42 pushstring "Publikumsfonds"
45 pushdouble 0
48 pushdouble 0
51 pushdouble 0
54 newarray [5]
56 pushdouble 0
59 pushstring "AMK"
62 pushdouble 0
65 pushdouble 0
68 pushdouble 0
71 newarray [5]
73 pushdouble 0
76 pushstring "Aktienfonds"
79 pushdouble 0
82 pushdouble 0

[pfleiderer]

Sorry, ABCdump is working fine!

Seems that the bug is in Xcelsius, a tool from Business Objects (SAP).