If you ever have to get greater detail as to what is going on with the compiler or linker in Visual Studio, you can “crank up” the verbosity in the IDE’s options: crank-it-up!
In case the link above dies, you “go into the Tools->Options menu, and go to Projects and Solutions->Build and Run and change the value of the MSBuild project build output verbosity. You can pick between Quiet, Minimal, Normal, Detailed and Diagnostic”.
Awesome!