SDK is installed and still get 'The term 'makecert' is not recognized' error

Question

Running win8.1 rtm (MSDN). I've downloaded the sdk to

'C:\Users\foo\Downloads\Windows Kits\8.1\StandaloneSDK'.

No errors the first time I ran it ... attempting to re-run tells me all features are uptodate. I've re-booted.

Attempting to execute the makecert tool:

makecert -sky exchange -r -n "CN=myDevLaptop" -pe -a sha1 -len 2048 -ss My "myDevLap.cer"

and get:

makecert : The term 'makecert' is not recognized as the name of a cmdlet, function, script file, or operable program. Check the spelling of the name, or if a path was included, verify that the path is correct and try again.

Suspect that the path's length is preventing further appendage.

Answer 1

I believe I'm going to need to cull my path a bit. The following explicitly entered path solved the original problem.

set-location 'C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\bin\x64\' makecert -sky exchange -r -n "CN=myDevLaptop" -pe -a sha1 -len 2048 -ss My "myDevLap.cer"