Verbose build logs from Android Studio

Issue

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.

Solution

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"
        }
    }

Answered By - Bram