Verbose build logs from Android Studio

Question

How do I get a verbose log (including the command-line arguments to compiler and linker) when building with Android Studio?

I have just transitioned from Ant / Android.mk builds to Android-Studio builds. With the old system, I was able to see how the compiler was evoked by doing:

$ ndk-build V=1

What would be the equivalent setting in Android Studio to accomplish this? I have a suspicion that my project is building against the wrong GLES version (gles2 instead of gles3) and want to make sure by seeing the command line arguments to the linker.

Answer 1

It turns out you can make the build verbose by changing the build.gradle file as follows:

    externalNativeBuild {
        cmake {
            arguments "-DCMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=1"       
        }
    }

When using ndk-build instead of cmake, use this instead:

    externalNativeBuild {
        ndkBuild {
            arguments "V=1"
        }
    }