A standalone version of the LESS command-line compiler that will run on Windows with no other dependencies.
Consists of a standalone version of Node.js and the required less.js files/dependencies.
Download and extract the release ZIP and invoke lessc.cmd
as detailed below.
Basic usage:
lessc path\source.less path\output.css
Compress CSS:
lessc --clean-css path\source.less path\output.css
For full usage:
lessc -h
Previously the project used the Windows Script Host cscript.exe
as its runtime. Over time this was proving to be diffcult to support as it was essentially using the browser-based version of less.js and stubbing out objects like window
and document
to mimic the browser environment. This version is still available in the windows-script-host branch.