Can´t add less-compiler lessc on Netbeans 7.4

Question

At first I downloaded Less from GitHub and saved the folder on my disk. After that, I tried to locate the compiler (file lessc) in my Netbeans IDE (7.4 Beta). After that, I got the following Error-Message:

Answer 1

I'm not sure if Less compiler can work without NodeJS. So I would do following:

• install NodeJS (nodejs.org)

• install less compiler using npm

  npm install -g less

• then NetBeans should find it, if not, you need to specify path to lessc.cmd, e.g.

  C:\Users\lada\AppData\Roaming\npm\lessc.cmd

• to find where is your lessc.cmd, run following in command line

  where lessc.cmd

The lessc (without cmd) is for Linux and Mac OSX

Answer 2

I downloaded lessc from here:

https://github.com/duncansmart/less.js-windows

unzipped the zip-file and copied all files to C:\bin\lessc but you can copy it anywhere you like.

Then just point Netbeans to that folder and lessc.cmd and it should work.