This section only applies if you use SNiFF+'s Make Support. If you use your own Makefiles, please refer to Using Your Own Makefiles.
Your SNiFF+ installation's General Makefile defines rules for building a number of special targets known as help targets. These targets are used by SNiFF+ in a number of situations, such as when you build targets using Make Support and update your working environments. Note that you can view a complete listing of all help targets by:
Cleaning up working environments with help targets
Here's a list of the help targets you can use for cleaning up working environments:
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On Windows
| Symbolic links are not supported. As a result, SNiFF+ creates local copies instead of symbolic links. If disk space is an issue, please use the above help targets with care.
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Here's a list of the help targets you can use for creating symbolic links. Note that all these targets are built in the current project directory and all recursive subproject directories in the current working environment, so directories above it are not affected:
Building the help targets
To build help targets, please complete the following steps:
Open the project for which you want to build help targets.
Update Make Support Files:
Choose the Update Makefiles... command from the Target menu.
Press the OK button in the dialog that appears to update the project's dependencies information.
SNiFF+ generates or updates the Make Support Files of all projects checkmarked in the
Project Tree.
Use SNiFF+'s Target > Make... walking menu to build the following targets: