I'm fairly new to CPP, although I have a bit of background in some non-compiled languages (VB, perl, etc.)
I've finished writing a simple console application that writes some registry keys.

I compiled it, and the application works as designed in all tests so far.

what I'm trying to do is add version and other file information to the compiled EXE.

I'm using MinGW to compile on my Windows computer.

The specific things I'm trying to add are what comes up when you right-click on the EXE file and choose Properties. Thing such as "Product Version", "Copyright", and "Description".

I've looked around, and I found RCVERSION, and used it to create the following "version.h" file, but I don't know what to do from here, or even if this is what I need to do at all:



I'd appreciate any guidance in accomplishing this. Please let me know if there are any other details you need.


Thanks in advance!

I ended up figuring out what I needed to do, although I'm still reviewing it to make sure that I fully understand it.

i downloaded the sample project they have with www.codeproject.com, and I sorta reverse-engineered what they did for the versioning, and it has nothing to do with using a "version.h" file in any way.

basically, I had to add a block to my .rc file with the info, and then re-compile and now I have the info I want. I just have to customize it a bit further and then I'll be good to go.

in case anyone else is looking for this info, I found Microsoft's guide on this here:

Article aa381058 "VERSIONINFO Resource" @ msdn.microsoft.com

this site also has a good article:

Article c4539 "Versioning in Windows" @ www.codeguru.com



Thanks so much for your support here, and I look forward to helping out and learning more here in the future!