How to Generate Windows DLL versioning information with CMake

Question

I\'m using CMake to build a shared library, however for the Windows DLL I need the versioning information, like:

• FileDescription
• FileVersion

Answer 1

I'm had same problem and have automated version generation for my projects. You need three files from github:

• generate_product_version.cmake
• VersionInfo.in
• VersionResource.rc

Put it in cmake subdirectory of your project and make sure to include it to CMAKE_MODULE_PATH like:

set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${CMAKE_MODULE_PATH} ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake)

Then before add_executable() or add_library(SHARED) your target, use:

include(generate_product_version)
generate_product_version(
   VersionFilesOutputVariable
   NAME "My Great Project"
   ICON ${PATH_TO_APPLICATION_ICON}
   VERSION_MAJOR 1
   VERSION_MINOR 3
   VERSION_PATCH ${BUILD_COUNTER}
   VERSION_REVISION ${BUILD_REVISION}
)

Full list of supported resource strings see in generate_product_version.cmake.

VersionInfo.h and VersionResource.rc will be generated to cmake binaries folder. Variable VersionFilesOutputVariable will hold paths to these files. Just add this list to your target:

add_executable(MyGreatProject ${your-target-sources} ${VersionFilesOutputVariable})

UPDATE: Corrected generate_product_version script parameters from VERSION_PATH to VERSION_PATCH.