[CB-6728] Support chip architecture as an option when building Windows and Windows Phone projects

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 3.4.0
• Component/s: cordova-android, cordova-cli, cordova-ios, cordova-windows, cordova-wp8 (DEPRECATED)
• Labels: arm cli windows wp8 x64 x86
• Assignee: Jesse MacFadyen
• Reporter: Vladimir Kotikov
• Created: 21/May/14 13:08
• Updated: 12/Jan/16 23:07
• Resolved: 07/Jun/14 01:17

Description

Currently apps for Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 are targeted to AnyCPU architecture, which is universal, but sometimes it's critical to build application for specific processor architecture.
As an example is WebSQL plugin which contains references to C++ libs so needs to be built for specific architecture (x84, x64, ARM) and which does not support AnyCPU target.

So it looks important to add support for additional build flags `-x64`, `-x86`, `-arm`, '-any' to specify target chip architecture.

cordova build windows8 --release --x64
cordova build wp8 --arm

If flag is not specified, `AnuCPU` target platform should be used by default.

Issue Links

• is depended upon by: CB-6716 XCode 5.1 Valid Architectures ignored/misread by Cordova CLI 3.4.1?
• is duplicated by: CB-6716 XCode 5.1 Valid Architectures ignored/misread by Cordova CLI 3.4.1?
• is related to: CB-5535 bin/create can't support both --shared and --arc at the same time