I followed tutorial from this website for compiling the jrxml file into jasper.
I tried the same for compiling my jrxml file as below but i am getting error:
Errors :
C:\eclipse\wkspc\Jasper>gradle --stacktrace
FAILURE: Build failed with an exception.
* Where:
Build file 'C:\eclipse\wkspc\Jasper\build.gradle' line: 21
* What went wrong:
A problem occurred evaluating root project 'Jasper'.
> Could not find property 'classes' on root project 'Jasper'.
* Try:
Run with --info or --debug option to get more log output.
* Exception is:
org.gradle.api.GradleScriptException: A problem occurred evaluating root project 'Jasper'.
at org.gradle.groovy.scripts.internal.DefaultScriptRunnerFactory$ScriptRunnerImpl.run(DefaultScriptRunnerFactory.java:54)
at org.gradle.configuration.DefaultScriptPluginFactory$ScriptPluginImpl.apply(DefaultScriptPluginFactory.java:177)
at org.gradle.configuration.project.BuildScriptProcessor.execute(BuildScriptProcessor.java:38)
at org.gradle.configuration.project.BuildScriptProcessor.execute(BuildScriptProcessor.java:25)
at org.gradle.configuration.project.ConfigureActionsProjectEvaluator.evaluate(ConfigureActionsProjectEvaluator.java:34)
at org.gradle.configuration.project.LifecycleProjectEvaluator.evaluate(LifecycleProjectEvaluator.java:55)
at org.gradle.api.internal.project.AbstractProject.evaluate(AbstractProject.java:507)
at org.gradle.api.internal.project.AbstractProject.evaluate(AbstractProject.java:82)
at org.gradle.configuration.DefaultBuildConfigurer.configure(DefaultBuildConfigurer.java:31)
at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.doBuildStages(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:142)
at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.doBuild(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:113)
at org.gradle.initialization.DefaultGradleLauncher.run(DefaultGradleLauncher.java:81)
at org.gradle.launcher.exec.InProcessBuildActionExecuter$DefaultBuildController.run(InProcessBuildActionExecuter.java:64)
at org.gradle.launcher.cli.ExecuteBuildAction.run(ExecuteBuildAction.java:33)
at org.gradle.launcher.cli.ExecuteBuildAction.run(ExecuteBuildAction.java:24)
at org.gradle.launcher.exec.InProcessBuildActionExecuter.execute(InProcessBuildActionExecuter.java:35)
at org.gradle.launcher.exec.InProcessBuildActionExecuter.execute(InProcessBuildActionExecuter.java:26)
at org.gradle.launcher.cli.RunBuildAction.run(RunBuildAction.java:50)
at org.gradle.internal.Actions$RunnableActionAdapter.execute(Actions.java:171)
at org.gradle.launcher.cli.CommandLineActionFactory$ParseAndBuildAction.execute(CommandLineActionFactory.java:201)
at org.gradle.launcher.cli.CommandLineActionFactory$ParseAndBuildAction.execute(CommandLineActionFactory.java:174)
at org.gradle.launcher.cli.CommandLineActionFactory$WithLogging.execute(CommandLineActionFactory.java:170)
at org.gradle.launcher.cli.CommandLineActionFactory$WithLogging.execute(CommandLineActionFactory.java:139)
at org.gradle.launcher.cli.ExceptionReportingAction.execute(ExceptionReportingAction.java:33)
at org.gradle.launcher.cli.ExceptionReportingAction.execute(ExceptionReportingAction.java:22)
at org.gradle.launcher.Main.doAction(Main.java:46)
at org.gradle.launcher.bootstrap.EntryPoint.run(EntryPoint.java:45)
at org.gradle.launcher.Main.main(Main.java:37)
at org.gradle.launcher.bootstrap.ProcessBootstrap.runNoExit(ProcessBootstrap.java:50)
at org.gradle.launcher.bootstrap.ProcessBootstrap.run(ProcessBootstrap.java:32)
at org.gradle.launcher.GradleMain.main(GradleMain.java:23)
Caused by: groovy.lang.MissingPropertyException: Could not find property 'classes' on root project 'Jasper'.
at org.gradle.api.internal.AbstractDynamicObject.propertyMissingException(AbstractDynamicObject.java:43)
at org.gradle.api.internal.AbstractDynamicObject.getProperty(AbstractDynamicObject.java:35)
at org.gradle.api.internal.CompositeDynamicObject.getProperty(CompositeDynamicObject.java:94)
at org.gradle.groovy.scripts.BasicScript.propertyMissing(BasicScript.java:66)
at build_1gd9osjtknqhs7ujdaggmldmrq.run(C:\eclipse\wkspc\Jasper\build.gradle:21)
at org.gradle.groovy.scripts.internal.DefaultScriptRunnerFactory$ScriptRunnerImpl.run(DefaultScriptRunnerFactory.java:52)
... 30 more
BUILD FAILED
Total time: 7.443 secs
My project folder structure 
build.gradle file
configurations {
jasperreports {
transitive = true
}
}
dependencies {
jasperreports 'net.sf.jasperreports:jasperreports:5.0.1'
}
task compileJasperJava(dependsOn: 'compileJava') << {
def jasperSourceDir = file('src')
def jasperTargetDir = file('target')
ant {
taskdef(name: 'jrc', classname: 'net.sf.jasperreports.ant.JRAntCompileTask', classpath: configurations.jasperreports.asPath)
jasperTargetDir.mkdirs()
jrc(srcdir: jasperSourceDir, destdir: jasperTargetDir) {
classpath(path: sourceSets.main.output.classesDir)
include(name: '**/*.jrxml')
}
}
}
classes.dependsOn compileJasperJava