diff --git a/src/Makefile.am b/src/Makefile.am
index 08ebc575b39..2d5b46c9c86 100644
--- a/src/Makefile.am
+++ b/src/Makefile.am
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+include Makefile.include
 AM_CPPFLAGS =  $(INCLUDES) -I$(top_builddir)/src/obj \
   -I$(top_srcdir)/src/leveldb/include -I$(top_srcdir)/src/leveldb/helpers \
   -I$(builddir) $(BOOST_INCLUDES) $(BDB_CPPFLAGS)
@@ -47,6 +48,10 @@ bitcoind_LDADD = libbitcoin.a leveldb/libleveldb.a leveldb/libmemenv.a \
 bitcoind_SOURCES = bitcoind.cpp
 #
 
+if TARGET_WINDOWS
+bitcoind_SOURCES += bitcoin-res.rc
+endif
+
 AM_CPPFLAGS += $(BDB_CPPFLAGS)
 bitcoind_LDADD += $(BDB_LIBS)
 
diff --git a/src/bitcoin-res.rc b/src/bitcoin-res.rc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..202b7ab352a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/bitcoin-res.rc
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+#include <windows.h>             // needed for VERSIONINFO
+#include "clientversion.h"       // holds the needed client version information
+
+#define VER_PRODUCTVERSION     CLIENT_VERSION_MAJOR,CLIENT_VERSION_MINOR,CLIENT_VERSION_REVISION,CLIENT_VERSION_BUILD
+#define VER_PRODUCTVERSION_STR STRINGIZE(CLIENT_VERSION_MAJOR) "." STRINGIZE(CLIENT_VERSION_MINOR) "." STRINGIZE(CLIENT_VERSION_REVISION) "." STRINGIZE(CLIENT_VERSION_BUILD)
+#define VER_FILEVERSION        VER_PRODUCTVERSION
+#define VER_FILEVERSION_STR    VER_PRODUCTVERSION_STR
+#define COPYRIGHT_STR          "2009-" STRINGIZE(COPYRIGHT_YEAR) " The Bitcoin developers"
+
+VS_VERSION_INFO VERSIONINFO
+FILEVERSION     VER_FILEVERSION
+PRODUCTVERSION  VER_PRODUCTVERSION
+FILEOS          VOS_NT_WINDOWS32
+FILETYPE        VFT_APP
+BEGIN
+    BLOCK "StringFileInfo"
+    BEGIN
+        BLOCK "040904E4" // U.S. English - multilingual (hex)
+        BEGIN
+            VALUE "CompanyName",        "Bitcoin"
+            VALUE "FileDescription",    "Bitcoind (OSS daemon/client for Bitcoin)"
+            VALUE "FileVersion",        VER_FILEVERSION_STR
+            VALUE "InternalName",       "bitcoind"
+            VALUE "LegalCopyright",     COPYRIGHT_STR
+            VALUE "LegalTrademarks1",   "Distributed under the MIT/X11 software license, see the accompanying file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php."
+            VALUE "OriginalFilename",   "bitcoind.exe"
+            VALUE "ProductName",        "Bitcoind"
+            VALUE "ProductVersion",     VER_PRODUCTVERSION_STR
+        END
+    END
+
+    BLOCK "VarFileInfo"
+    BEGIN
+        VALUE "Translation", 0x0, 1252 // language neutral - multilingual (decimal)
+    END
+END