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If you are using the bundled distribution and planned to only use the compiled libraries {{\*.jar}}, you can skip this section. Otherwise you will learn how to compile JFreeReport into libraries, how to generate documentations, ... using [Ant|http://ant.apache.org], the building system we are using.
To know if Ant is already installed on your system just type ant in your system command line:
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If you are using the bundled distribution and planned to only use the compiled libraries *.jar, you can skip this section. Otherwise you will learn how to compile JFreeReport into libraries, how to generate documentations, ... using Ant, the building system we are using.
To know if Ant is already installed on your system just type ant in your system command line:
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$> ant \-version
Apache Ant version 1.6.5 compiled on June 2 2005
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If
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it
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is
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not
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working
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try
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to
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get
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the
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procedure
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how
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to
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install
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Ant
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to
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your
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system
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or
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do
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a
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manual
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install
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as
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describe
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on
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Ant
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page.
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Here
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is
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a
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reminder
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if
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you
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don't
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want
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or
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need
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to
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read
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the
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full
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installation
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documentation.
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First
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get
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the
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lastest
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Ant
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binary
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version
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on
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the
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page.
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Once
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extracted
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you
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will
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get
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the
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following
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layout:
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- a
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- directory
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- containing
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- launcher
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- scripts,
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bin/
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- .
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- a
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- directory
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- containing
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- Ant
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- jars
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- plus
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- necessary
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- dependencies,
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lib/
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- .
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- a
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- directory
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- containing
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- documentations,
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docs/
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- .
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- a
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- directory
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- containing
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- goodies,
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etc/
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- .
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Then
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define
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a
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variable
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called
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ANT_HOME
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that
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points
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to
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the
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root
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directory
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of
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the
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Ant
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distribution
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you
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just
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extract:
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# On Windows environments
$> set ANT_HOME=drive:\path\to\ant
# On Unix environments
$> export ANT_HOME=/path/to/ant
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And
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to
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finish
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append
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the
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luncher
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scripts
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directory
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to
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your
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executable
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path:
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# On Windows environments
$> set PATH=%PATH%;%ANT_HOME%\bin
# On Unix environments
$> export PATH=$ {PATH}:${ANT_HOME}/bin
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Now
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Ant
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is
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working
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just
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go
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to
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the
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ant/
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directory
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of
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JFreeReport
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distribution
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and
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type
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the
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command
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ant
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.
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This
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command
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will
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automaticaly
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load
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the
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configuration
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file
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named
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build.xml
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and
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will
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process
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the
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whole
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compilation
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of
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the
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project.
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The
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result
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will
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be
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exactly
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the
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same
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as
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JFreeReport
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bundled
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distribution
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we
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saw
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in
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a
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previous
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section.
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ant targets description