CUDA + Visual Studio = suppressed output window

Question

Normally, when I use Visual Studio to do a build, I see warnings and errors shown in the output pane, e.g.

1>------ Build started: Project: pdcuda, Configuration: Release x64 ------
Compiling...
foo.cpp
Linking...
foo.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "foo"
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

I'm doing some GPU programming with CUDA. Upon upgrading to 2.1, I no longer get any useful output in Visual Studio. For example, all I now see is:

1>------ Build started: Project: pdcuda, Configuration: Release x64 ------
========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========

The other details can be found in BuildLog.htm, but it's inconvenient to hunt that file down all the time.

Does anyone know how to force Visual Studio to show the output in its output pane?

Things that don't help:

• uninstalling CUDA: the problem persists in all projects
• Tools > Options > Projects and Solutions > Build and Run > MSBuild project build output verbosity: changing this pulldown, even to "Diagnostic" has no discernable effect.

EDIT: Additional things that don't help:

• devenv.exe /resetsettings
• devenv.exe /resetuserdata

UPDATE (in response to Die in Sente): It's now working on one of the two machines (I'm not sure what I did to fix it though). The machine that's still having problems has a CUDA Visual Studio Wizard installed that has caused similar problems before. The still-broken machine had version 15.00.21022.8 of the compiler. The working machine has 15.00.30729.1. After making a backup, I transferred "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\VC\BIN\amd64" from the working to the broken machine. I observe no changes in behavior on the broken machine.

Answer 1

I have exactly the same problem, but without CUDA. Today Visual Studio just decided it wasn't going to show any build messages anymore. It was working fine, then one of my builds it just stopped working. The problem persists over all my projects now, and persists over reboots. I also see the correct messages in buildlog.htm. This is ridonkulous!

EDIT: Ooh, I used the add/remove programs to do a repair, and now it works again! Yeah!