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Trying to set up LESS for CSS on my Windows box, I've installed ruby and rubygems and followed the instructions exactly.
I have put teststyle.less in C:\.
When I type
lessc teststyle.less to compile it into a .css file, I get an error:
The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect. Out of those familiar with LESS, do any of you have a solution to my problem?
Did I mess up the install?
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Step 1: Go to your project folder, create a subfolder named CSS and then create a file named styles. less inside it.
The client-side compiler less. js can be downloaded from http://lesscss.org/. You can use less. js in the browser, which is a great tool to get you started with Less, although it should only be used for development.
Most likely you need to compile you're Less Files into CSS. You can do this manually, or with a task runner like Gulp. If you already have compiled the file, it could be that the compiled css file is cached in the browser and the browser cache needs to be cleared.
If you don't want to use GUI to compile LESS on Windows, there is a clean way to get lessc command on Windows command line. It only requires you to install node.js, which is required by original lessc anyway.
So, install node.js (http://nodejs.org/) and install "less" module for node.js. The latter provides lessc executable (lessc.cmd on Windows) as well, so you should only make sure it gets under your PATH in Windows.
If you don't have node.js yet, here are step-by-step instructions:
> npm install less (make sure you do so from node.js installation directory only)lessc.cmd to node_modules/.bin/ directory. Add this directory to PATHlessc as usualSource: http://pragmatictim.blogspot.fr/2012/08/developing-with-less-on-windows-getting.html
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