diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index daa26c5b..74860fa2 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -12,6 +12,12 @@ set(PROJECT_NAME_CAPITALIZED "Flameshot")
 set(DEFAULT_RUN_IN_PLACE FALSE)
 if(WIN32)
 	set(DEFAULT_RUN_IN_PLACE TRUE)
+    # For Windows RC file.
+    add_definitions(-DFLAMESHOT_VERSION_MAJOR=${CMAKE_PROJECT_VERSION_MAJOR})
+    add_definitions(-DFLAMESHOT_VERSION_MINOR=${CMAKE_PROJECT_VERSION_MINOR})
+    add_definitions(-DFLAMESHOT_VERSION_BUGFIX=${CMAKE_PROJECT_VERSION_PATCH})
+    add_definitions(-DFLAMESHOT_VERSION_BUILD=1)
+    add_definitions(-DFLAMESHOT_VERSION_STRING="${PROJECT_VERSION}")
 endif()
 set(RUN_IN_PLACE ${DEFAULT_RUN_IN_PLACE} CACHE BOOL
 	"Run directly in source directory structure")
diff --git a/data/flameshot.rc b/data/flameshot.rc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1fac2d6f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/data/flameshot.rc
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+#pragma code_page(65001) // UTF-8
+
+IDI_ICON1 ICON "img\\app\\flameshot.ico"
+
+#include <windows.h>
+
+#define VER_FILEVERSION             FLAMESHOT_VERSION_MAJOR,FLAMESHOT_VERSION_MINOR,FLAMESHOT_VERSION_BUGFIX,FLAMESHOT_VERSION_BUILD
+#define VER_FILEVERSION_STR         FLAMESHOT_VERSION_STRING
+
+#define VER_PRODUCTVERSION          FLAMESHOT_VERSION_MAJOR,FLAMESHOT_VERSION_MINOR,FLAMESHOT_VERSION_BUGFIX,FLAMESHOT_VERSION_BUILD
+#define VER_PRODUCTVERSION_STR      FLAMESHOT_VERSION_STRING
+
+#ifndef DEBUG
+#define VER_DEBUG                   0
+#else
+#define VER_DEBUG                   VS_FF_DEBUG
+#endif
+
+VS_VERSION_INFO VERSIONINFO
+FILEVERSION     VER_FILEVERSION
+PRODUCTVERSION  VER_PRODUCTVERSION
+FILEFLAGSMASK   VER_DEBUG
+FILEFLAGS       VER_DEBUG
+FILEOS          VOS__WINDOWS32
+FILETYPE        VFT_APP
+FILESUBTYPE     VFT2_UNKNOWN
+BEGIN
+    BLOCK "StringFileInfo"
+    BEGIN
+        BLOCK "040904b0"
+        BEGIN
+            VALUE "CompanyName",      "The flameshot Org."
+            VALUE "FileDescription",  "Flameshot"
+            VALUE "FileVersion",      VER_FILEVERSION_STR
+            VALUE "InternalName",     "flameshot"
+            VALUE "LegalCopyright",   "Copyright (C) 2017-2020 flameshot.org"
+            VALUE "OriginalFilename", "flameshot.exe"
+            VALUE "ProductName",      "Flameshot"
+            VALUE "ProductVersion",   VER_PRODUCTVERSION_STR
+        END
+    END
+
+    BLOCK "VarFileInfo"
+    BEGIN
+        VALUE "Translation", 0x0409, 0x04b0 /* U.S. English (Unicode) */
+    END
+END
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/data/icon.rc b/data/icon.rc
deleted file mode 100644
index 2cdab732..00000000
--- a/data/icon.rc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-IDI_ICON1	ICON    DISCARDABLE	"img/app/flameshot.ico"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
index 96928ac6..094c6d55 100644
--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ target_sources(
           ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../external/Qt-Color-Widgets/src/color_wheel.cpp
           ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../external/Qt-Color-Widgets/include/color_wheel.hpp
           ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../data/graphics.qrc
-          ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../data/icon.rc # windows binary icon resource file
+          ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../data/flameshot.rc # windows binary icon resource file
           ${QM_FILES}
           main.cpp)