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

just below path in environment variables there is PATHEXT, have to add .PY to it, as the gcloud is gcloud.py,

also have to add

C:\Program Files\Google\Cloud SDK\google-cloud-sdk\lib\googlecloudsdk\gcloud;

C:\Program Files\Google\Cloud SDK\google-cloud-sdk.staging\lib\googlecloudsdk\gcloud

to the environmental variable path.

Answer 2

I am having the same Issue but fortunately I've got it resolved :)

First thing gcloud is actually gcloud.py so you have to fix this by adding .py to PATHTEXT environment variable, second try to locate gcloud.py by searching inside the C:\Program Files\Google\Cloud SDK\google-cloud-sdk mine happened to be in this path C:\Program Files\Google\Cloud SDK\google-cloud-sdk\lib\googlecloudsdk\gcloud copy it and add it to PATH environment variable

As steps:

1. Go to control panel and type environment into search and click Edit the system environment variables
2. Click on environment variables button
3. Edit PATHTEXT add: ;.py
4. Edit PATH add the path for gcould, mine be like: ;C:\Program Files\Google\Cloud SDK\google-cloud-sdk\lib\googlecloudsdk\gcloud

hopefully everything will workout for you

Answer 3

For me I had to add the following path to my Environment system path:

C:\Users\<my windowns username>\AppData\Local\Google\Cloud SDK\google-cloud-sdk\bin

Answer 4

None of the above helped on Windows 8.1 64 bit. Because the SDK is 32 bit and it installs 64 bit Python.

I solved this by uninstalling the SDK and Python, removing folders. I downloaded python 32 bit, installed it and then the SDK and it worked.

Answer 5

I just tried it again and I found the issue.

C:\google-cloud-sdk\bin is not added in the system variable path. I added that it's working fine now.

Answer 6

If you don't even have the /bin folder, chances are you are on a corporate network that uses a proxy server to get to the Internet and the SDK did not get installed properly. This gets further compounded if you use a PAC to configure your proxy settings. The SDK installer doesn't give you any indication of a failure when installing. You should have a file called install_google_cloud_sdk.py though. On the command line, run python install_google_cloud_sdk.py --install-directory [install dir].

After a few moments you'll see detailed errors that may help you determine your next steps or it could just hang indefinitely. Below is an example of what I originally experienced.

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "install_google_cloud_sdk.py", line 90, in <module>
    main()
  File "install_google_cloud_sdk.py", line 74, in main
    archive_path = DownloadArchive(t, url)
  File "install_google_cloud_sdk.py", line 54, in DownloadArchive
    req = urllib2.urlopen(url)
  File "C:\python27_x64\lib\urllib2.py", line 127, in urlopen
    return _opener.open(url, data, timeout)
  File "C:\python27_x64\lib\urllib2.py", line 404, in open
    response = self._open(req, data)
  File "C:\python27_x64\lib\urllib2.py", line 422, in _open
    '_open', req)
  File "C:\python27_x64\lib\urllib2.py", line 382, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "C:\python27_x64\lib\urllib2.py", line 1222, in https_open
    return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPSConnection, req)
  File "C:\python27_x64\lib\urllib2.py", line 1181, in do_open
    h.request(req.get_method(), req.get_selector(), req.data, headers)

I had to change my Internet proxy from the PAC file to a named server and port. Apparently the python interpreter does not handle PAC configurations very well.