title: CUDA + Visual Studio = suppressed output window
body: <p>Normally, when I use Visual Studio to do a build, I see warnings and errors shown in the output pane, e.g.</p>
  
  <pre><code>1&gt;------ 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 ==========
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm doing some GPU programming with <a href="http://www.nvidia.com/object/cuda_home.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">CUDA</a>.  Upon upgrading to 2.1, I no longer get any useful output in Visual Studio.  For example, all I now see is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>1&gt;------ Build started: Project: pdcuda, Configuration: Release x64 ------
  ========== Build: 0 succeeded, 1 failed, 0 up-to-date, 0 skipped ==========
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>The other details can be found in BuildLog.htm, but it's inconvenient to hunt that file down all the time.  </p>
  
  <p>Does anyone know how to force Visual Studio to show the output in its output pane?</p>
  
  <p>Things that don't help:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><em>uninstalling CUDA:</em> the problem persists in all projects</li>
  <li><em>Tools > Options > Projects and Solutions > Build and Run > MSBuild project build output verbosity:</em> changing this pulldown, even to "Diagnostic" has no discernable effect.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT:</strong> Additional things that don't help:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>devenv.exe /resetsettings </li>
  <li>devenv.exe /resetuserdata</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p><strong>UPDATE</strong> <em>(in response to Die in Sente)</em>: 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 <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/cudavswizard" rel="nofollow noreferrer">CUDA Visual Studio Wizard</a> 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.</p>