URL - http://www.mingw.org/MinGWiki/index.php/MS%20resource%20compiler


A typical .rc file (for just adding a version number) would look like this...


/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// Version
//

VS_VERSION_INFO     VERSIONINFO
  FILEVERSION       1,0,0,1
  PRODUCTVERSION    1,0,0,1
 FILEFLAGSMASK 0x3fL
#ifdef _DEBUG
 FILEFLAGS 0x1L
#else
 FILEFLAGS 0x0L
#endif
 FILEOS 0x4L
 FILETYPE 0x1L
 FILESUBTYPE 0x0L
BEGIN
    BLOCK "StringFileInfo"
    BEGIN
        BLOCK "040904e4"
        BEGIN
            VALUE "CompanyName", "TODO: <Company name>"
            VALUE "FileDescription", "TODO: <File description>"
            VALUE "FileVersion",     "1.0.0.1"
            VALUE "InternalName",    "MFCTest.exe"
            VALUE "LegalCopyright", "TODO: (c) <Company name>.  All rights reserved."
            VALUE "OriginalFilename","MFCTest.exe"
            VALUE "ProductName", "TODO: <Product name>"
            VALUE "ProductVersion",  "1.0.0.1"
        END
    END
    BLOCK "VarFileInfo"
    BEGIN
        VALUE "Translation", 0x0409, 1252
    END
END