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

I too got the same error. I tried above two answers. But did not help then, I deleted python from control panel and deleted the Google sdk folder from ProgramFiles. Reinstalled GoogleCloudSDK. Now everything is fine.

And go to C:\Program Files\Google\Cloud SDK\google-cloud-sdk and click on install.bat and complete. And in cmd-------> gcloud config set project projectid

Answer 2

Just try to run as administrator the ..\Cloud SDK\google-cloud-sdk\install.bat and follow the instructions. At the end it will automatically add the needed dependecies to the PATH variable.

Answer 3

Opening gitbash and gcloud auth login worked for me. Hope it will work for you as well

Answer 4

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

I followed these steps:

set http_proxy=<<your_http_proxy>>
set https_proxy=<<your_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.

Answer 5

For me the system path variable C:\Program Files\Google\Cloud SDK\google-cloud-sdk\bin was already set. Had to add C:\Program Files\Google\Cloud SDK\google-cloud-sdk.staging\bin as well to get it up working smoothly. Hope this resolves the issue