Deploy Cordova app to a Windows Phone 8.1 device from Windows 10

Question

I'm trying to deploy my Cordova app to a WP 8.1 device from Windows 10. For this, I'm executing cordova run --device -- --phone.

However, this command fails with an error message that C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\v8.1\Tools\AppDeploy\AppDeployCmd.exe is missing. I manually checked and found out there is a C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\v8.1\Tools directory with some contents, but no AppDeploy inside.

The next steps I took were:

• Change my VS 2015 installation and make sure everything related to WP is checked
• Install VS 2013 and do the same as above
• Install all WP 8.1 related items from here (development tools, emulators)

After all these steps, the Application Deployment tool is still not available.

What am I doing wrong, i.e. what else do I need to install?

Update:

Error message:

ERROR: App deployment utilities: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\v8.1\Tools\AppDeploy\AppDeployCmd.exe", not found. Ensure the Windows SDK is installed.

For what it's worth, building works, and I can open the generated project in Visual Studio and deploy from there without any problems.

Answer 1

I found a solution myself:

On my machine, I'm using two drives, and SSD (C:) and a hard drive (Z:). Windows and some programs are installed on C:, but due to limited space, many programs are located on Z:.

For some reason, AppDeployCmd.exe was located on Z: under the same path as it was expected on C:, i.e. Z:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows Phone\v8.1\Tools\AppDeploy\AppDeployCmd.exe. Apparently, parts of the SDK were installed on Z: and others on C:, even though I though this couldn't be customized in the wizard.

Anyway, I just copied the AppDeploy directory to it's dedicated position on C: and deploying works now.