Add a depend_files: keyword to windows.compile_resources()

Expose depend_files: from the custom_target this creates.

This is the change suggested in #2815, with tests and documentation added.

Fixes #2789 (duplicate #2830)

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/docs/markdown/Windows-module.md b/docs/markdown/Windows-module.md
index 1d4b9bf..ba1e34e 100644
--- a/docs/markdown/Windows-module.md
+++ b/docs/markdown/Windows-module.md
@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ arguments. Returns an opaque object that you put in the list of
 sources for the target you want to have the resources in. This method
 has the following keyword argument.
 
- - `args` lists extra arguments to pass to the resource compiler
+- `args` lists extra arguments to pass to the resource compiler
+- `depend_files` lists resource files that the resource script depends on
+  (e.g. bitmap, cursor, font, html, icon, message table, binary data or manifest
+  files referenced by the resource script) (*since 0.47.0*)
 - `include_directories` which does the same thing as it does on target
   declarations: specifies header search directories
diff --git a/docs/markdown/snippets/windows-resources-dependencies.md b/docs/markdown/snippets/windows-resources-dependencies.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f446ea5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/markdown/snippets/windows-resources-dependencies.md
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+## Windows resource files dependencies
+
+The `compile_resources()` function of the `windows` module now takes
+the `depend_files:` keyword.