VS Professional 2017 v15.7: MSBuild v4.0 is not supported, aborting. about cordova-windows

[liuxh0]

Of course.

I just set the env variable MSBUILDDIR to the path where VS is installed, in my case C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Professional\MSBuild\15.0\Bin.

[liuxh0]

@janpio , you solved my problem! Thanks!

[janpio]

cordova-windows 5.x had problems with VS2017 in general, that's probably why that is not working.
cordova-windows 6.x should work with VS17, but seems the newer MSBuild somehow trips it up.

Maybe try setting the env vars mentioned here to try to fix this: https://cordova.apache.org/announcements/2018/02/27/cordova-windows-6.0.0.html

[janpio]

Awesome, thanks for the update!

Do you mind sharing what exactly solved the problem? Future readers might appreciate it.

[KevinKeyssx]

Hello, I have the same problem, but I do not have VS 2017 and 2019 therefore I cannot configure the MSBUILDDIR environment variable, I only have Android Studios and the error is:

MSBuild v4.0 is not supported, aborting.
Error: AppPackages does not exist

My version of cordova is:
7.0.0

Any idea how to solve the problem I have?

[janpio]

You generally need Visual Studio to build Cordova Windows.

Please open a new issue if you still have questions. Thanks.