Question

On OS X 10.7.2, I created a small build system in Sublime Text 2 that will compile my LESS files into CSS for me, but it seems to be having a problem.

{
    "cmd": ["/usr/local/lib/node_modules/less/bin/lessc", "-x", "$file", "$file_path/$file_base_name.css"],
    "selector": ["source.less"]
}

I’ve installed Node.js v0.6.6 using the standard OS X installer package, and installed less v1.1.6 using npm into the /usr/local/lib/node_modules folder. Switching to my build system works fine, but when I attempt to run the build I get the following error message:

[Finished]env: node: No such file or directory

Running the command from the terminal works perfectly fine, it’s just Sublime that is taking issue.

Answer 1

Another way to solve this is to install LESS globally, as it looks like you’ve already done:

npm install -g less

Then pass shell=true as a variable in the build script:

{
    "shell" : true,
    "cmd": ["lessc", "-x", "$file", "$file_path/$file_base_name.css"],
    "selector": "source.css.less"
}

That runs the lessc command in the terminal in a way you’d expect.