Sunday, February 8, 2009

[VC++] Build time in Visual Studio 6 with /Y3 command line

Here is how to obtain the build time in the Output window with Visual Studio 6.
You need to start MSDEV.exe with command line /Y3, for this you have 2 options,
  • Starting MSDEV from command prompt with /Y3 option
  • Better way is to create a shortcut of MSDEV and modify the target adding /Y3 (see below snapshots) and start Visual Studio from this shortcut.


Here is a sample build output with /Y3 switch

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