[GIS] Running LAStools on QGIS 2.8: “missing dependency. lastools folder is not configured”

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To be honest I'm not sure how to run LAStools from within QGIS 2.8.
I'm trying to learn by experimentation. QGIS shows all the LAStools in the toolbox

If I double click on a LAStool in the toolbox I get the following message:

Missing dependency. This algorithm cannot run 🙁
LAStools folder is not configured. Please configure it before running LAStools algorithms.

I can't find any LAStools *.exe files anywhere within my QGIS Wien file structure. That makes me wonder how I could have LAStools show in the toolbox. Could it be a *.dll somewhere?

What am I doing wrong?

Best Answer

There is a lot of help available on how to configure LAStools for QGIS. First check the original blog post about it (including all comments). If you speak Spanish then there is also this option here. And if all this does not help then search for QGIS in the LAStools user forum.