See the question and my original answer on StackOverflow

FWIW, in case this can be useful to anyone, I had no scons.bat anywhere in the tons of my python directories (much could be said also about python install mess...) after having done all the usual python pip trials.

So what I did is create a scons.bat file manually in a folder that I know is in my PATH with simply this inside:

python -m SCons %*

Note SCons is here case-sensitive