add support for "target_type: 'shared_module'" in build_target()

2 files changed, 29 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md
index d86d825..01fa3c3 100644
--- a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md
+++ b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md
@@ -158,7 +158,19 @@ library. In addition it supports the following extra methods:
 ### build_target()
 
 Creates a build target whose type can be set dynamically with the
-`target_type` keyword argument. This declaration:
+`target_type` keyword argument.
+
+`target_type` may be set to one of:
+
+- `executable`
+- `shared_library`
+- `shared_module`
+- `static_library`
+- `both_libraries`
+- `library`
+- `jar`
+
+This declaration:
 
 ```meson
 executable(<arguments and keyword arguments>)
diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/target-type-shared-module.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/target-type-shared-module.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e9364a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/markdown/snippets/target-type-shared-module.md
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+## `target_type` in `build_targets` accepts the value 'shared_module'
+
+The `target_type` keyword argument in `build_target()` now accepts the
+value `'shared_module'`.
+
+The statement
+
+```meson
+build_target(..., target_type: 'shared_module')
+```
+
+is equivalent to this:
+
+```meson
+shared_module(...)
+```