title: Phonegap Cordova installation Windows
body: <p>The documentation for phonegap/cordova is absolutely horrible.  All I'm trying to do is install PhoneGap 3.0 on my Windows environment but having no success.</p>
  
  <p>Below are my steps and points of failure.  Can anyone advise on solutions?</p>
  
  <p>According to the <a href="http://docs.phonegap.com/en/3.0.0/guide_cli_index.md.htm" rel="noreferrer">instructions</a>:</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Install Node.js (SUCCESSFUL)</li>
  <li>From nodes.js: <code>install -g cordova</code> (SUCCESSFUL)</li>
  <li>Add Platform: <code>cordova platform add wp8</code> (NOTHING HAPPENS)</li>
  <li>Try with phonegap: <code>phonegap install wp8</code> (ERROR project directory could not be found)</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>From "<a href="http://docs.phonegap.com/en/edge/guide_platforms_wp8_index.md.html#Windows%20Phone%208%20Platform%20Guide" rel="noreferrer">Windows Phone 8 platform guide</a>"</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>Install Windows SDK (SUCCESSFUL)</li>
  <li>"Download and extract the latest copy of [PhoneGap. You will be working in the lib\windows-phone-8\wp8 subfolder, lib\windows-phone-8\wp7 contains the Windwos Phone 7 version of Cordova"</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>HUH?!?!  What location is the directory in?!?!  So I've found the undocumented phonegap directory buried in AppData\Local... and there IS a libs directory but there certainly is NOT any WP8 subfolders.  Where would one install that from?  Presumably the add platform command above, but add that simply returns me to a new command prompt.</p>
  
  <p>Tried using the phonegap command: <code>phonegap plaform add wp8</code></p>
  
  <p>ERROR - 'platform add wp8" is not a node.</p>
  
  <p>I get its open source but this is brutal spaghetti reference documentation.  If anyone has been able to successfully install 3.0 for WP8 any pointers would be help.</p>