Using Asset Converter With Less Files

Yii 2.0 General Discussions
1

Hi all,

Trying to move to Yii2, i’m having a error, i think is not Yii specific but i don’t understand what i’m doing wrong.

I have nodejs installed and i can run lessc from windows dos box, if i run the command from the dos box actually it works and the file is compiled, when it runs through i get the following error.

Any help is appreciated. Thanks


Exception – yii\base\Exception


AssetConverter command 'lessc "D:/webserver/agenda/app/web/css/app.less" "D:/webserver/agenda/app/web/css/app.css" --no-color' failed with exit code 1:

STDOUT:


STDERR:

'lessc' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.
2

Is the command available as lessc from anywhere i.e. added to PATH?

3

Yes that was the solution I forgot to add the path to windows system environment

Thank you

4

Can someone help - I’m trying to do the same thing (have read the docs, still struggling). I’m using WAMP (on windows) and I’m getting the same error above.

  1. How do I install lessc to my @app directory and where do I get it from?

  2. What do you mean by add it to environment variables?

Any help would be much appreciated - thanks.

5

  1. Use official less website. There are downloads and a guide.

  2. http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000549.htm

6

Hi… i have same problem here.

I have added lessc to the system path. Run lessc in cmd from any directory, working good. I have also set the assetManager converter in config file (as in yii2 docs).




        'assetManager' => [

            'converter' => [

                'class' => 'yii\web\AssetConverter',

                'commands' => [

                    'less' => ['css', 'lessc {from} {to} --no-color'],

                ],

            ],

        ],

But when i try to load any page in yii2, it still give me error.


'lessc' is not recognized as an internal or external command,

operable program or batch file.

Am I missing something?

7

Restarting my computer, and Problem solved!

8

I have the same problem when using Sass pre-processor tools.

I also solved this problem by rebooting my computer. FYI

9

Windows 10 x64, php 7.0.8 x64 the same error.

From console or phpstorm runs perfectly, but php seems dont load path varible, and lessc.cmd run fails