Also for reference, the roaming appdir is located:
C:\Users\Joseph Carroll\AppData\roaming\npm

@jd-carroll thanks for submitting the issue. I'm not a primary Windows users, so it's difficult to uncover these kind of issues without the help of the community!

By the looks of it, the space is causing the command to fail. I'll create a new user account and see if I can reproduce your issue!

@jd-carroll your hunch was correct that the roaming directory reference was broken due to the space in your username.

I've patched this issue in the above commit. It's now published and available on npm as phonegap@4.1.2-0.22.8.

Cheers!
Michael

Thanks for the fix!

After upgrading I started seeing the following:

MSBUILD : error MSB3428: Could not load the Visual C++ component "VCBuild.exe".
 To fix this, 1) install the .NET Framework 2.0 SDK, 2) install Microsoft Visua
l Studio 2005 or 3) add the location of the component to the system path if it
is installed elsewhere.  [C:\Users\Joseph Carroll\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modu
les\phonegap\node_modules\connect-phonegap\node_modules\socket.io\node_modules\
socket.io-client\node_modules\engine.io-client\node_modules\ws\build\binding.sl
n]
MSBUILD : error MSB3428: Could not load the Visual C++ component "VCBuild.exe".
 To fix this, 1) install the .NET Framework 2.0 SDK, 2) install Microsoft Visua
l Studio 2005 or 3) add the location of the component to the system path if it
is installed elsewhere.  [C:\Users\Joseph Carroll\AppData\Roaming\npm\node_modu
les\phonegap\node_modules\connect-phonegap\node_modules\socket.io\node_modules\
socket.io-client\node_modules\engine.io-client\node_modules\ws\build\binding.sl
n]

In case anyone else runs into this, check out the following link:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14278417/cannot-install-node-modules-that-require-compilation-on-windows-7-x64-vs2012

After running npm rebuild phonegap --msvs_version=2012 it seems to be working fine.

If that doesn't work try installing the SDK as described here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7761395/where-is-vcbuild-in-vs2010

JD

Crazy, thanks for the including that solution @jd-carroll!

What terminal or Command Prompt are you using? There a lot of options in Windows: Command Prompt, Command Prompt for Node.js, Command Prompt for Visual Studio, Cygwin, Gitbash, or something else?