? You cannot run iOS unless you are on Mac OSX

ionic-v1
1

I am trying to create an Android Cordova app using Ionic on a Windows machine. I have no intention of doing a iOS app at the moment.

So after doing the required:

ionic start myApp tabs
cd myApp
ionic platform add android

Since I have only added the Android platform, I thought I can simply do a build.

ionic build

And then Ionic complains:

? You cannot run iOS unless you are on Mac OSX.

Huh? What has my project got to do with iOS or Mac OSX when I have not added iOS as a platform for the project?

I have to do a:

ionic build android

This works. By default, if there is only 1 platform (i.e. android) or 1 installed emulator only, shouldn’t it be the implied default for ionic build, ionic run and ionic emulate?

2

Leave it, its just a warning. but you have to specify
ionic build , platform={ios,andriod}
in your case it is, ionic build android

3

You are obviously using an old version of Ionic CLI. Post your ionic info please to confirm.

4 
Your system information:

 ordova CLI: 6.5.0
Ionic CLI Version: 2.2.2
Ionic App Lib Version: 2.2.1
ios-deploy version: Not installed
ios-sim version: Not installed
OS: Windows 7
Node Version: v6.10.2
Xcode version: Not installed

I ran ionic lib

This command has been deprecated.  All resources are currently available in NPM
and we recommend that you use NPM to manage these.
More information is available here: https://github.com/driftyco/ionic-cli/wiki/M
igrating-to-NPM-from-bower

Local Ionic version: 1.3.3  (<my-project-path->\version.
json)
Invalid version: undefined
5

If I update to the latest Ionic, which by now defaults to supporting Ionic 2 Angular 2 projects, will it mess up my current Ionic 1 AngularJS projects?

I guess it would be something like

npm update -g ionic
6

Ionic CLI (what you install via npm install -g ionic) is something different than Ionic Framework. Ionic CLI v3 works with all versions of Ionic, only some commands changed. But everything is much faster and more stable.

7

How does one upgrade the Ionic Framework from 1 to 2 then? Not through the npm update command? I do not want to mess up my current Ionic 1 projects.

Btw, is there a listing of the changes from ionic cli in term of the switches and parameters?

8

By completely rewriting the app. Those are completely incompatible.

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