Can I build and run windows platform with device or simulator flag in mac os? about cordova-windows

[janpio]

Uh, I don't think anyone ever tried that.

You might want to try the environment variables mentioned in this blog post: https://cordova.apache.org/announcements/2018/02/27/cordova-windows-6.0.0.html

[sudotamm]

@janpio
I add MSBUILDDIR variable and try to build again. Failed with error "CordovaError: No valid MSBuild was detected for the selected target: Windows SDK not found. Ensure that you have installed Windows 10.0 SDK along with Visual Studio or install Windows 10.0 SDK separately from https://dev.windows.com/en-us/downloads".
Is that means windows 10.0 SDK must run with Windows 10 OS?

[janpio]

Very much possible, yes.

I worked on / messed with that code (finding MSBuild) some time ago, and I am not sure if it was actually made for a non Windows environment. You will probably have to look at the code to figure that out (Best use the error messages you are getting to find the correct code parts).

[janpio]

Reading this again later: No, this just means that you have to have the Windows 10.0 SDK installed. It's very possible that this only works on Windows of course.

[janpio]

I checked: https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/windows-10-sdk makes it clear that Windows 10 SDK can only be installed on Windows 10, and not on macOS or Linux.

Thus the response to your initial question is unfortunately: No, building, running and emulating a Cordova Windows app will only work on Windows.