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

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.

Solution

    1. Open the project properties dialog, then choose

      Configuration Properties → C/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.