An error occured during creation of android sub-project

Question

I installed cordova e phonegap via npm install -g cordova and npm install -g phonegap respectively. Then i created a HelloWorld application via cordova create HelloWorld mynamespace.helloworld HelloWorld. It worked fine! Then i changed my working directory to HelloWorld and i tried to build the app for android via cordova platform add android -d but it didn't work. here is the output:

Installing cordova library for android...
Requesting {"uri":"https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf?p=cordova-android.git;a=snapshot;h=3.3.0;sf=tgz"}...
Downloading cordova library for android...
Downloaded, unzipped and extracted 541065 byte response.
Download complete
Installing cordova library for android...
Checking if platform "android" passes minimum requirements...
Creating android project...
Running bin/create for platform "android" with command:     ""C:\Users\marcos.pacheco\.cordova\lib\android\cordova\3.3.0\bin\create"  "C:\Dev\HelloWorld\platforms\android" "mynamespace.helloworld" "HelloWorld"" (output to follow)


C:\Users\marcos.pacheco\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cordova\node_modules\q\q.js:126
                throw e;
                      ^
Error: An error occured during creation of android sub-project.

at C:\Users\marcos.pacheco\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\cordova\src\platform.js:244:30
at exithandler (child_process.js:633:7)
at ChildProcess.errorhandler (child_process.js:649:5)
at ChildProcess.EventEmitter.emit (events.js:95:17)
at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (child_process.js:787:12)

I've googled and have found some issues with whitespaces but my project is in the C:\Dev\HelloWorld path and my android sdk is in the PATH so that when i type adb at the windows prompt i get the help information of the command as well Java and Ant. Furthermore, i have ANT_HOME, JAVA_HOME and ANDROID_HOME set. I also deleted the ** .cordova ** folder inside my %HOMEPATH% directory and entered the command again but the error is still there.

What might be wrong?

Answer 1

XCOPY needs to be defined and found on your path as it is used by the internal node.js scripts to move things around.

You probably already have xcopy.exe somewhere on your machine. You should be able to add %SystemRoot%\System32 to your PATH and it will work. Or you can open up a terminal and type where xcopy to see the actual path to your xcopy.exe.

I guess having XCOPY on the path is a requirement for setting up and installing Android, but it'd be nice if Cordova checked to make sure you have XCOPY somewhere...