gcloud not recognized as an internal or external command on Windows

Question

I am installing Google App Engine under Windows (not using Cygwin). After running the bat script, I closed and reopened the cmd.exe and entered inside the

Answer 1

Like Domenic called out, I was missing the /bin folder because of the corporate proxy.

I followed these steps:

set http_proxy=<>
set https_proxy=<>
cd "c:\Program Files\Google\Cloud SDK"
c:\Python27\python.exe google-cloud-sdk\install_google_cloud_sdk.py --install-directory .

The installation completed successfully but it wasn't added to the PATH environment variable, so I had to manually add "C:\Program Files\Google\Cloud SDK\google-cloud-sdk\bin\" to it.