Is there a Visual Studio plugin for sorting build output (scrambled from multi-threaded builds)?

Question

My work just gave me a quad core computer, and WOW build times are fast! (What used to take 20+ minutes now takes 7 minutes).

Anyway, Visual Studio builds project in parallel (great for build times), but scrambles the output:

1>Performing Makefile project actions
3>arg.c
2>msg.c
3>log.c
4>test.c

(and so on....)

Is there a plugin that sorts the output when the build is complete?

How do I enable multi-threaded build? – shoosh Oct 10 '08 at 19:18 — shoosh, Oct 10 '08 at 19:18
It should be automatic is you have a multi-core computer. – Kevin Oct 11 '08 at 08:16 — Kevin, Oct 11 '08 at 08:16

score 9 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 10 '08 at 18:33

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Selecting the "Build order" item in the "Show output from" dropdown list in the output and errors panes probably does what you are looking for.

answered Oct 10 '08 at 18:33

Doh! I didn't even realize that was there! Thanks a ton! :) – Kevin Oct 10 '08 at 18:35
And is there a way to get the same when running devenv from command line with newer VS versions like VS2017 ? – Epligam Nov 21 '20 at 18:14
@Epligam not that I know of - however, you could probably pipe the output to powershell and use `Sort-Object -Stable` – Raphaël Saint-Pierre Mar 18 '21 at 19:04

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