[Scons-users] Help regarding IOError(stderr.decode("mbcs"))

[Aseem Shakuntal]

Hello, 
In order to get started with scons, I created a simple "hello.c" and a SConstruct file which does this: 
env = Environment()hello = Program(["hello.c"])
When I run scons from my folder which contains these files, I get this error: 
$ sconsscons: Reading SConscript files ...IOError: :  File "E:\scons-test\SConstruct", line 1:    env = Environment()  File "c:\Python27\scons-2.0.1\SCons\Environment.py", line 991:    apply_tools(self, tools, toolpath)  File "c:\Python27\scons-2.0.1\SCons\Environment.py", line 105:    env.Tool(tool)  File "c:\Python27\scons-2.0.1\SCons\Environment.py", line 1692:    tool(self)  File "c:\Python27\scons-2.0.1\SCons\Tool\__init__.py", line 180:    self.generate(env, *args, **kw)  File "c:\Python27\scons-2.0.1\SCons\Tool\default.py", line 41:    SCons.Tool.Tool(t)(env)  File "c:\Python27\scons-2.0.1\SCons\Tool\__init__.py", line 180:    self.generate(env, *args, **kw)  File "c:\Python27\scons-2.0.1\SCons\Tool\mslink.py", line 242:    msvc_setup_env_once(env)  File "c:\Python27\scons-2.0.1\SCons\Tool\MSCommon\vc.py", line 343:    msvc_setup_env(env)  File "c:\Python27\scons-2.0.1\SCons\Tool\MSCommon\vc.py", line 436:    d = msvc_find_valid_batch_script(env,version)  File "c:\Python27\scons-2.0.1\SCons\Tool\MSCommon\vc.py", line 390:    d = script_env(vc_script, args=arg)  File "c:\Python27\scons-2.0.1\SCons\Tool\MSCommon\vc.py", line 292:    stdout = common.get_output(script, args)  File "c:\Python27\scons-2.0.1\SCons\Tool\MSCommon\common.py", line 173:    raise IOError(stderr.decode("mbcs"))
I am using windows 7, 64 bit. I have python 2.7 installed (and also python 3.2).
Can anyone point me to fixing this? Any help / pointers are highly appreciated!
Br, Aseem--i must dream, to make my dreams come true! 		 	   		  
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