VS2012: 'nmake' is not recognized as an internal or external command

for visual studio 2015 community edition add the following path to your system environment path

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\bin

in the above path there is the nmake command

find the following dir, and run vsvars32.bat

   C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\Tools

inside your DOS window, then try to run nmake

You can also click start -> All programs -> Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0 -> Visual studio tools -> VS2012 x86 native tools command .

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