[CB-5997] [windows8] Add MSBuild v12.0 (VS 2013) tools support

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.3.0
• Fix Version/s: 3.4.0
• Component/s: cordova-cli, cordova-windows

Environment

Windows 8.1 + VS 2013

• Assignee: Sergey Grebnov
• Reporter: Sergey Grebnov
• Created: 10/Feb/14 07:57
• Updated: 12/Jan/16 23:08
• Resolved: 10/Feb/14 12:38

Description

New Visual Studio 2013 comes with new MS Build tools v12.

> msbuild /ver
Microsoft (R) Build Engine version 12.0.21005.1
[Microsoft .NET Framework, version 4.0.30319.34003]
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

12.0.21005.1

But windows8\bin\check_reqs.js fails since it expects the following output

>msbuild /ver
Microsoft (R) Build Engine version 4.0.30319.33440
[Microsoft .NET Framework, version 4.0.30319.34003]
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

If I remove this check for particular msbuild version cordova-cli can successfully create windows8 template and then build it using MSBuild v12.