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

Download code from

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Git

git clone https://

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github.

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com/apache/jmeter.git target-directory

Extract code from release archives

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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.readme md in the distribution