simpLESS not compiling

Question

I am using 'simpLESS' program to compile my .less files into .css files on the fly.

It is really great!

However, after using it only for couple of days, 'simpLESS' stopped copiling the .less into .css files. I have tried to reinstall, redownload and then reinstall, tried other directories, other .less files, tried recompiling manuall - but nothing works.

Has anyone experienced this?

Thanks!

Answer 1

Simpless is always bad with error handling! instead of telling you what's wrong it just doesn't work! So here is what I do: when Simpless doesn't display the error I use Winless to find the error and after I fix it I go back to Simpless. note: I use Simpless because it works fine with @import .less files in the other hand Winless doesn't.

Answer 2

I seem to found the problem. I had the following code:

#result{
   .result_padding;

   .icon{
      height: 17px;
      width: 23px;
    }
}

However, the ".result_padding" actually was not defined. The simpLESS compiler should have spotted this, but I guess this is a bug. Anyway, after removing this line - it worked.