REM First see if there is an environment variable set if EXIST "%SPHINX_BIN%" ( goto detect_sphinx_done ) REM Then see if inkscape is available in the path for %%X in (sphinx-build.exe) do (set SPHINX_BIN=%%~$PATH:X) if EXIST "%SPHINX_BIN%" ( goto detect_sphinx_done ) echo.The 'sphinx-build' command was not found. Make sure you have Sphinx echo.installed, then set the SPHINX_BIN environment variable to point echo.to the full path of the 'sphinx-build' executable. Alternatively you echo.may add the Sphinx directory to PATH. echo. echo.If you don't have Sphinx installed, grab it from echo.http://sphinx-doc.org/ REM If still not found clear the variable set SPHINX_BIN= :detect_sphinx_done