BIRT Installation
Because the BIRT Ant Task doesn't include BIRT report engine but just uses it, it should be installed somewhere "close" to the place where the build is
running.
BIRT consist of two major parts - BIRT Report Designer and BIRT Runtime. The designer part, as it's name says, is intended for report development and design. The runtime part is then used to generate the output of the reports and it is exactly the part which is used by BIRT Ant Task. The task is mainly tested with BIRT 2.3.1. To get it please visit BIRT Download page and download birt-runtime-2_3_1.zip.
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NOTE
Compatibility with other versions is currently not deeply tested. To get info about specific BIRT functionalities supported or not supported by BIRT Ant Task see Compatibility Matrix.
If you have some good or bad experiences please share them on BIRT Ant Task Mailing List.
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To install it just extract the zip file somewhere on your disk so you will get birt-runtime-2_3_1 folder.
The last think you can do is to set BIRT_HOME environment variable with absolute path to the birt-runtime-2_3_1 directory. If you don't have rights or you just don't want to do it, don't worry, it is possible to set BIRT's home using birthome attribute of the task.
Ant Task Installation
There is not installation procedure for the task. The only thing you should do is to download the jar containing task implementation and integrate it into your Ant build script. How to do the integration is described in Task Reference.
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