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Mayur
Mayur

Reputation: 503

msbuild failed in windows phone 8 phonegap CLI

I have successfully create app for android. and when i am going to add platform for windows 8 it shows error like below

$cordova platform add wp8
checking wp8 requirements...
Error: Error while checking requirements: The command `msbuild` failed. Make sure you have       
the latest Windows Phone SDKs installed, AND have the latest .NET framework added to your     
path    (i.e C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v4.0.30319).

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Please Help me... :(

Thanks in Advance...

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1693

Answers (2)

pascalpimaia
pascalpimaia

Reputation: 1

Depending on .NET version the string returned by msbuild -version command in the above mentionned script (%APP_DATA%\.cordova\lib\wp\cordova\3.3.0\wp8\bin\check_reqs.js) varies.

For recent .NET the following regexp worked for me:

/Microsoft\s\.NET\sFramework,\sVersion\s4\.0\.30319/

Upvotes: 0

PiTheNumber
PiTheNumber

Reputation: 23542

I followed this fix of the same bug with wp7:

Open %HOMEPATH%\.cordova\lib\wp\cordova\3.3.0\wp8\bin\check_reqs.js and search for var msversion = output.match in function SystemRequiermentsMet() (Line 83).

I changed it from

var msversion = output.match(/Microsoft\s\(R\)\s+Build\sEngine\s[a-z]+\s4\.0\.30319/i);

to

var msversion = output.match(/4\.0\.30319/i);

That is still not a good regexp for the task. But it works.

Also I needed to run Visual Studio 2012 x86 Phone Tools instead of the normal cmd.exe.

BTW: This bug has been reported and fixed for next version.

Upvotes: 2

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