How can I make Visual Studio's build be very verbose?

Menu ToolsOptionsProjects and SolutionsBuild and RunMSBuild project build output verbosity: Diagnostic


Visual Studio 2008:

Go to menu ToolsOptions then Project and SolutionsBuild and Run section. You have a combo box for verbosity.

C++ compiler option (project properties):

  • Preprocessor - Generate Preprocessed File for seeing the translation unit as generated by preprocessor
  • Advanced - Show includes - display included file names at compiler output

  1. Open the project properties dialog, then choose

    Configuration PropertiesC/C++General

  2. Change the setting for Suppress Startup Banner to No

  3. The cl command line(s) will be shown in the output window.