How to compile dojo themes in windows using nodejs? - dojo

Question

I download the dojo source with the themes and compiler and i tried to compile it using node.js
and followed the instruction below, but was unable to compile it in pc environment?
Can some help?
http://davidwalsh.name/dijit-theme
http://nodejs.org/#
C:\Downloads\dojo-release-1.7.3-src\dojo-release-1.7.3-src\dijit\themes\claro>node compile.js
Error: require.paths is removed. Use node_modules folders, or the NODE_PATH environment variable instead.
at Function.Module._compile.Object.defineProperty.get (module.js:386:11)
at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Downloads\dojo-release-1.7.3-src\dojo-release-1.7.3-src\util\less\ind
ex.js:5:8)
at Module._compile (module.js:449:26)
at Object.Module._extensions..js (module.js:467:10)
at Module.load (module.js:356:32)
at Function.Module._load (module.js:312:12)
at Module.require (module.js:362:17)
at require (module.js:378:17)
at Object.<anonymous> (C:\Downloads\dojo-release-1.7.3-src\dojo-release-1.7.3-src\dijit\themes\
claro\compile.js:8:9)
at Module._compile (module.js:449:26)

Answer 1

It looks like you're using an outdated version of LESS with a newer version of node.
dojo-release-1.7.3-src comes bundled with LESS 1.1.3, released early 2011.
Replace util/less with a more recent version of LESS.
Alternatively, all compile.js is doing is running the LESS parser against all of the LESS files in the theme directory. You could install the LESS command line tools (npm install -g less) and invoke lessc on the LESS files manually.