Windows Phone Emulator exited with code 8 during Cordova Multi Device Hybrid App Build

Question

While building a Cordova Multi Device Hybrid App for windows phone, it is throwing an error.

Error message : The command ""C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\vs-mda\vs-cli" build --platform "Windows Phone" --configuration "Debug" --projectDir . --projectName "AngularJSToDo" --language "en-US" --buildServerUrl "" --buildTarget "PhoneEmulatorWvga512"" exited with code 8.
C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modules\vs-mda-targets\Microsoft.MDA.targets 99  5   AngularJSToDo

But it is working fine for Android and iphone. Issue is only with Windows phone.

Answer 1

This error occurs when the required SDKs are not installed on your machine. To resolve this, go to:

• Programs and Features
• Right click on Microsoft Visual Studio Ultimate 2013
• Click change
• Choose Modify
• Check "Tools for Maintaining Store Apps for Windows 8" and Windows Phone 8.0 SDK"
• Click Update

That should install the missing SDK. Then try building again after restarting Visual Studio.

Taken from the official documentation.