Index: etc/sphinx_train.cfg
===================================================================
--- etc/sphinx_train.cfg	(revision 11411)
+++ etc/sphinx_train.cfg	(working copy)
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 $CFG_SPHINXTRAIN_DIR = "___SPHINXTRAIN_DIR___";

 # Directory containing SphinxTrain binaries
-$CFG_BIN_DIR = "___SPHINXTRAIN_DIR___/../../libexec/sphinxtrain";
+$CFG_BIN_DIR = "___SPHINXTRAIN_DIR___/__RELATIVE_BIN_DIR__";
 $CFG_GIF_DIR = "$CFG_BASE_DIR/gifs";
 $CFG_SCRIPT_DIR = "___SPHINXTRAIN_DIR___/scripts";

Index: scripts/sphinxtrain.in
===================================================================
--- scripts/sphinxtrain.in	(revision 11411)
+++ scripts/sphinxtrain.in	(working copy)
@@ -1,9 +1,14 @@
 #!/usr/bin/python

-sphinxpath="@prefix@"
-
 import getopt, sys, os

+if os.name == 'nt':
+    scriptdir = os.path.dirname(sys.argv[0])
+    sphinxtrainpath = os.path.join(scriptdir, os.path.pardir)
+else:
+    sphinxpath = "@prefix@"
+    sphinxtrainpath = sphinxpath + "/lib/sphinxtrain"
+
 def setup(task):
     if not os.path.exists("etc"):
         os.mkdir("etc")
@@ -11,13 +16,25 @@
     print "Setting up the database " + task

     out_cfg = open("etc/sphinx_train.cfg", "w")
-    for line in open(sphinxpath + "/lib/sphinxtrain/etc/sphinx_train.cfg", "r"):
-	line = line.replace("___DB_NAME___", task).replace("___BASE_DIR___", os.getcwd()).replace("___SPHINXTRAIN_DIR___", sphinxpath + "/lib/sphinxtrain")
+    for line in open(sphinxtrainpath + "/etc/sphinx_train.cfg", "r"):
+	line = line.replace("___DB_NAME___", task).replace("___BASE_DIR___", os.getcwd()).replace("___SPHINXTRAIN_DIR___", sphinxtrainpath)
+	if os.name == 'nt':
+	    dirlist = [ 'bin/Release', 'bin/Debug' ]
+	    for dirname in dirlist:
+	        if os.path.isdir(os.path.join(sphinxtrainpath, dirname)):
+	            bin_dir = dirname
+	            break
+	    else:
+	        raise IOError("Could not find the binaries. " +
+	            " Please compile the project using Visual Studio.")
+	else:
+	    bin_dir = '../../libexec/sphinxtrain'
+	line = line.replace('__RELATIVE_BIN_DIR__', bin_dir).replace('\\', '/')
 	out_cfg.write(line)
     out_cfg.close()

     out_cfg = open("etc/feat.params", "w")
-    for line in open(sphinxpath + "/lib/sphinxtrain/etc/feat.params", "r"):
+    for line in open(sphinxtrainpath + "/etc/feat.params", "r"):
 	out_cfg.write(line)
     out_cfg.close()

@@ -43,17 +60,24 @@
 "decode/slave.pl"
 ]

+def run_stage(step):
+    script_path = os.path.join(sphinxtrainpath, "scripts", step)
+    if os.name == 'nt':
+        return os.system("perl " + script_path)
+    else:
+        return os.system(script_path)
+
 def run_stages(stages):
     for stage in stages.split(","):
         for step in steps:
     	    name = step.split("/")[0].split(".")[-1]
     	    if name == stage:
-		os.system(sphinxpath + "/lib/sphinxtrain/scripts/" + step)
+		run_stage(step)

 def run():
     print "Running the training"
     for step in steps:
-	os.system(sphinxpath + "/lib/sphinxtrain/scripts/" + step)
+	run_stage(step)

 def usage():
     print ""