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I have managed to successfully install Magento 2 with a downloaded theme after many hours of struggling... Now I'm facing the symlink issue.

I've installed everything, php intl extension, grunt, nodejs but when I use "grunt exec:claue" it will delete all the files in the theme folder and only creates a symlink to "custom.less" (the file I've added to load in the header via default_head_blocks.xml). Then I got this in the css folder:

Only 1 symlink to the custom.css

After that I have to run "php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy nl_NL" to get all the other files deployed, but what I got then is this:

enter image description here You can see that only the "custom.less" is a symlink to the original file...

I'm in Developer mode so I really don't know anymore what I can do. I just need the "custom.css" to be a symlink also to make some customizations to the styling.

Version: Magento 2.1.7

Regards,

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Magento dosen't creates symlink of custom.css because it creates this file through compilation. Means custom.css does not exist in real path, so it is not possible to generate its symlink

  • You will get symlinks of files which are really exist in magento .
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  • So it's not possible to add a extra stylesheet for development so you don't have to compile everything when you change something in CSS?
    – n00bly
    Commented Aug 14, 2017 at 8:39

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