This page describes how to build JMeter.

Obtaining the code

The code can either be obtained from GIt, or extracted from the release archives.

Download code from Git

git clone https://github.com/apache/jmeter.git target-directory


Extract code from release archives

Unpack both the binary and source archives for the same release into the same directory structure.

There should be a couple of duplicate files: LICENCE, NOTICE

Building the code using Ant

Change to the top-level JMeter directory - the one containing build.properties and build.xml

Run the following command:

ant download_jars
ant package


This will compile all the classes and create all the jars.

Building the code using Eclipse

See eclipse.md in the distribution

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