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

There is an even easier way than the accepted answer. It does not involve transforming an input resource.rc.in. Simply create a generic version.rc file as described here and then from your CMakeLists.txt do this:

#CMakeLists.txt

add_definitions(-DVER_COMPANYNAME_STR="MyCompany")
add_definitions(-DVER_FILEVERSION_STR="1,1,0.0")
# ...
# add all the other defines here

set(LIC_TARGET MySharedLib)
add_library(${LIC_TARGET} SHARED ${SOURCES} version.rc)

This has the added benefit that the defines are accessible from your source code as well, so you have programmatic access to your version.