Sass output error in Netbeans 8.2

Question

I installed Sass via Chocolatey and get this error in the Netbeans console:

\"C:\\ProgramData\\chocolatey\\lib\\sass\\tools\\sass.bat\" \"--cache-location\" \"C:\\U

Answer 1

When I had that error my installation wasn't working correctly. I didn't use Chocolatey though. I installed ruby and sass with gem, added the path in the config and got it working. Maybe that helps.

Answer 2

I copy here the answer of Pete Whelpton at Apache Netbeans bug tracking for future reference because it is very useful for this issue:

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NETBEANS-2347

Netbeans SASS support was written for the original Ruby SASS. Modern SASS implementations (Dart SASS et al) are based on libsass.

There is very limited/incomplete support for libsass already in Netbeans (command line flags are NOT supported - but it should compile). To implement the workaround:

1. Open your netbeans.conf file (/etc/netbeans.conf in the NB installation folder)
2. Add the following to the netbeans_default_options parameter: -J-Dnb.sass.libsass=true
3. Launch Netbeans, Tools -> Options -> HTML5/JS -> CSS PreProcessors and configure it to point to your libsass implementation (e.g. the sass.bat file in your dart-sass installation folder)

In my case (Apache Netbeans Windows 64) this workaround worked.

Answer 3

In your Sass install directory, in file sass.bat, after the command:

set arguments=%*

add the following (replace username with your windows username)...

set arguments=%arguments:--cache-location =%
set arguments=%arguments:C:\Users\username\AppData\Local\NetBeans\Cache\8.2\sass-compiler =%
set arguments=%arguments:--debug-info =%

This strips out all of the arguments that are no longer accepted.

Answer 4

for Windows you may to edit sass.bat file.

In file need in variable arguments to replace a substring "--debug-info" and (for example) "--cache-location C:\Users\xyz\AppData\Local\NetBeans\Cache\10.0\sass-compiler" on empty data

for example: SET repaire_arguments=%arguments:--debug-info=% SET repaire_arguments=%repaire_arguments:--cache-location C:\Users\xyz\AppData\Local\NetBeans\Cache\10.0\sass-compiler=% "%SCRIPTPATH%\src\dart.exe" "-Dversion=1.16.1" "%SCRIPTPATH%\src\sass.dart.snapshot" %repaire_arguments%