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

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I need to get a hold of every flag, every switch used in the build process by the Visual Studio binaries. I tried to obtain a verbose output by using vcbuild, but I wasn't able.

What do I have to do to see everything performed by Visual Studio for me? It's not necessary to obtain the output in the build window. Anywhere would be fine.

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Menu Tools → Options → Projects and Solutions → Build and Run → MSBuild project build output verbosity: Diagnostic

user_1383040

Visual Studio 2008:

Go to menu Tools → Options then Project and Solutions → Build 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
user_831530

If you're running MSBuild, you can set the /v:diag flag.

user_1484230

In Visual Studio go to your project and right click on it and select properties. In Linker there is a command line option. There you have all the options and you can add your custom ones. Add /VERBOSE and when linking Visual Studio will show a lot more information.

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