How do I embed version information into a windows binary?

Question

You probably know that Windows has that option where you can view the properties of a binary and it will display information about the author, the version number, the compan

Answer 1

Assuming windows PE binaries, the Version information is stored in the PE header, in the IMAGE_OPTIONAL_HEADER section under the locations:

WORD MajorImageVersion
WORD MinorImageVersion

About which this documentation says:

A user-definable field. This allows you to have different versions of an EXE or DLL. You set these fields via the linker /VERSION switch. For example, "LINK /VERSION:2.0 myobj.obj"