Gradle auto-build output not visible

[sgjohnston]

I recently converted a project from Eclipse to VSCode. The project uses gradle, and it has an gradle eclipse task entry for autoBuildTasks - so that when files are saved in the IDE, a gradle task is run. I use this to run webpack for the client, and process resources, etc. It works great in Eclipse, and it also works in VSCode (although doesn't appear to be documented for VSCode).

The problem I have is there doesn't appear to be any way to see the output from this build - if it fails, then it does so silently. In Eclipse it is visible in an output window. In VSCode, if I run gradle tasks manually, then the output is available, but I can't find any way to see it for autoBuildTasks. Does anyone know how to resolve this?