On Windows (XP or greater), Command lines are limited in length to 8,191 bytes.
Windows compiler toolsets get around this by allowing the @filepath syntax on the command line.
So VERBOSE=1 is less useful on Windows. But you can always check command line in generated *.make files
For example (path used from question):
apps/foobar/CMakeFiles/bla.dir/build.make apps/foobar/CMakeFiles/bla.dir/flags.make