diff --git a/Makefile.port b/Makefile.port
index f94f1f858..7db675130 100644
--- a/Makefile.port
+++ b/Makefile.port
@@ -326,6 +326,9 @@ $(B_DIR)/%.o: %.cpp $(JSON_HEADERS)
 	@mkdir -p $(dir $@)
 	$(CXX) -c $(CXXFLAGS) $(OPT_LVL) -o $@ $<
 
+dist/windows/%.rc:
+	tools/mkresource.sh $(VERSION_HASH) $(VERSION_BRANCH) $(ROMID) $(BIN_NAME)
+
 $(B_DIR)/%.res: dist/windows/%.rc
 	windres $< -O coff -o $@
 
diff --git a/dist/windows/icon.rc b/dist/windows/icon.rc
deleted file mode 100644
index f2e2d4d79..000000000
--- a/dist/windows/icon.rc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-id ICON icon.ico
diff --git a/tools/mkresource.sh b/tools/mkresource.sh
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d8f11bf47
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/mkresource.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+tee dist/windows/icon.rc <<EOF
+100 ICON "./icon.ico"
+1 VERSIONINFO
+FILEVERSION     1,0,0,0
+PRODUCTVERSION  1,0,0,0
+BEGIN
+  BLOCK "StringFileInfo"
+  BEGIN
+    BLOCK "040904E4"
+    BEGIN
+      VALUE "CompanyName", "Perfect Dark decompilation project"
+      VALUE "FileDescription", "The unofficial Win32 port of Perfect Dark $3 $2 $1"
+      VALUE "FileVersion", "$1"
+      VALUE "InternalName", "perfectDark-Win32-$3-$2-$1"
+      VALUE "LegalCopyright", "(C) 2022 Ryan Dwyer, (C) 2023 fgsfdsfgs"
+      VALUE "OriginalFilename", "$4"
+      VALUE "ProductName", "Perfect Dark Win32"
+      VALUE "ProductVersion", "$3-$2-$1"
+    END
+  END
+
+  BLOCK "VarFileInfo"
+  BEGIN
+    VALUE "Translation", 0x409, 1252
+  END
+END
+EOF
\ No newline at end of file