[CB-9456] app crashes on startup on Windows

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Master
• Component/s: cordova-windows
• Labels: Windows

Environment

Windows 8.1

• Flags: Important
• Assignee: Alexander Sorokin
• Reporter: Alexander Sorokin
• Created: 05/Aug/15 12:59
• Updated: 06/Aug/15 08:43
• Resolved: 06/Aug/15 08:43

Description

cordova create foo
cd foo
cordova platform add https://github.com/apache/cordova-windows
cordova run windows

App starts and then crashes immediately with following message in windows log:

App <io.cordova.hellocordova> terminated itself by calling terminateApp API. App details are as follows:  Display Name:<HelloCordova>, AppUserModelId: <io.cordova.hellocordova_h35559jr9hy9m!io.cordova.hellocordova> Package Identity:<io.cordova.hellocordova_0.0.1.0_neutral__h35559jr9hy9m> PID:<3508>. The API was called from the context of the following HTML document:  </www/index.html>. Error object passed to terminateApp carried the following details Description:<{"description":"'platform' is undefined","number":-2146823279,"stack":"ReferenceError: 'platform' is undefined\n   at activationHandler (ms-appx://io.cordova.hellocordova/www/cordova.js:1320:17)\n   at dispatchOne (ms-appx://microsoft.winjs.2.0/js/base.js:9416:25)\n   at dispatchEvent (ms-appx://microsoft.winjs.2.0/js/base.js:9415:21)\n   at drainOneEvent (ms-appx://microsoft.winjs.2.0/js/base.js:9469:13)\n   at drainQueue (ms-appx://microsoft.winjs.2.0/js/base.js:9486:9)\n   at Anonymous function (ms-appx://microsoft.winjs.2.0/js/base.js:2952:17)\n   at state_running.enter (ms-appx://microsoft.winjs.2.0/js/base.js:2951:13)\n   at _setState (ms-appx://microsoft.winjs.2.0/js/base.js:2667:13)\n   at Anonymous function (ms-appx://microsoft.winjs.2.0/js/base.js:2866:13)\n   at _execute (ms-appx://microsoft.winjs.2.0/js/base.js:2642:13)"}>, and Stack Trace:- ReferenceError: 'platform' is undefined
   at activationHandler (ms-appx://io.cordova.hellocordova/www/cordova.js:1320:17)
   at dispatchOne (ms-appx://microsoft.winjs.2.0/js/base.js:9416:25)
   at dispatchEvent (ms-appx://microsoft.winjs.2.0/js/base.js:9415:21)
   at drainOneEvent (ms-appx://microsoft.winjs.2.0/js/base.js:9469:13)
   at drainQueue (ms-appx://microsoft.winjs.2.0/js/base.js:9486:9)
   at Anonymous function (ms-appx://microsoft.winjs.2.0/js/base.js:2952:17)
   at state_running.enter (ms-appx://microsoft.winjs.2.0/js/base.js:2951:13)
   at _setState (ms-appx://microsoft.winjs.2.0/js/base.js:2667:13)
   at Anonymous function (ms-appx://microsoft.winjs.2.0/js/base.js:2866:13)
   at _execute (ms-appx://microsoft.winjs.2.0/js/base.js:2642:13)
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