There have been some improvements to the tool recently, but it's hard to know if those are available on a given system unless the tool provides a
--version commandline option.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=772269
bce8b6d glib-compile-resources: Add a --version option
docs/reference/gio/glib-compile-resources.xml | 7 +++++++
gio/glib-compile-resources.c | 8 ++++++++
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)
Upstream: git.gnome.org