This page describes how to build JMeter.
The code can either be obtained from GIt, or extracted from the release archives.
git clone https://github.com/apache/jmeter.git target-directory |
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
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.
See eclipse.md in the distribution