MSBuild v4.0 is not supported, aborting

Question

I am developing ionic framework to build an Windows application. I can only add Windows platform, but I can't build it. When I build it, I get below error:

MSBuild v4.0 is not supported, aborting.
Error: AppPackages doesn't exists.

System Configuration:

• OS: Windows 8.1

• Visual Studio: 2013 ans 2015 installed

• Windows SDK: 8.1

Can anyone help?

Answer 1

You don't have build tools. Try with Microsoft Build Tools 2015 or Visual C++ 2015 Build Tools. For Build Tools for Visual Studio 2017 look in visualstudio.com/downloads/ section "Other tools and frameworks".