This section explains how to build the BIRT project.

This information is primarily for contributors to the BIRT open‑source project and for those who want to create a custom version of BIRT. The typical user does not need to build BIRT to extend BIRT or to write scripts for it.

After the build process completes, you can explore the BIRT source code and make changes to the code to suit your needs. Any changes made to the BIRT source are immediately implemented in BIRT Report Designer. To implement your changes in a web application, you must build and export a new web viewer.