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

Question

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

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.

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

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

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.