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iReport Ultimate Guide
• iReport-x.x.x.tgz. This is the official binary distribution in TAR GZ format.
• iReport-x-x-x-src.zip. This is the official distribution of source files in ZIP format.
• iReport-x.x.x-windows-installer.exe. This is the official Win32 installer.
• iReport-x.x.x.dmg. This is the official binary distribution for Mac OSX in Disk Image format.
x.x.x represents the version number of iReport * . Every distribution contains all needed libraries from third parties necessary to
use the program and additional files, such as templates and base documentation in HTML format.
iReport is also available as a native plug-in for NetBeans IDE 6.x. You can download the plug-in from SourceForge or
NetBeans.
At the time of writing we are planning an OS X distribution to support Macintosh systems; it may be available in the future.
2.3 Development Versions
If you want to test pre-release versions of iReport, you can directly access the developmental source repository with SVN. In
this case, you must have an SVN client (my favorite is Tortoise SVN). If you don’t have one, you will need to create an
account at http://community.jaspersoft.com/ in order to access the repository.
Pre-release iReport source code is no longer available on SourceForge CVS Server.
The URL of the SVN repository for iReport is:
https://jasperforge.org/svn/repos/ireportfornetbeans
2.4 Compiling iReport
The distribution with sources contains a NetBeans project. In order to compile the project and run iReport, you need NetBeans
IDE and the platform 6.0.1 (or 6.5.1 starting from iReport 3.6.1). If you are using NetBeans 6.0, the platform is the same as the
IDE; otherwise you’ll need to download the platform separately at this URL:
http://download.netbeans.org/netbeans/6.0/final/zip/netbeans-6.0.1-200801291616-mml.zip
If you need to work with iReport 3.6.1 sources, you need NetBeans 6.5.1; otherwise, you can download the 6.5.1 platform
from the NetBeans site.
http://bits.netbeans.org/download/6.5.1/fcs/zip.html
The file to download is netbeans-6.5.1-200903060201-all-in-one.zip.
Download iReport-x.x.x-src.zip and unzip it in the directory of your choice, such as c:\devel (or /usr/devel on a UNIX system).
Please note that NetBeans IDE is the development environment, while NetBeans 6.5.1 is the version of the platform
(which can be considered something like an external library or dependency; it has very little to do with the IDE).
iReport is built on NetBeans Rich Client Platform version 6.5.1. In order to build iReport you can use any version of
NetBeans IDE, but you need this specific NetBeans platform to successfully compile the sources.
* Up to iReport 3.6.1, the version number contains the “nb” prefix (for “NetBeans”). This prefix was introduced when iReport was
rewritten on top of the NetBeans platform (version 3.1.0). The prefix has been removed starting with version 3.6.2.
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