diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index e4b4e85585..cfb5935b2a 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ option(INSTALL_PRIVATE_HEADERS "Install private headers (usually needed for exte
 option(ENABLE_EXTERNAL_PLUGINS "Enable loading of externally built Rime plugins (from directory set by RIME_PLUGINS_DIR variable)" OFF)
 option(ENABLE_THREADING "Enable threading for deployer" ON)
 option(ENABLE_TIMESTAMP "Embed timestamp to schema artifacts" ON)
+option(BUILD_RELEASE "Build a release version" OFF)
 
 set(RIME_DATA_DIR "rime-data" CACHE STRING "Target directory for Rime data")
 set(RIME_PLUGINS_DIR "rime-plugins" CACHE STRING "Target directory for externally built Rime plugins")
diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
index 6ee20e8956..a9e10590df 100644
--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -13,6 +13,46 @@ set(rime_core_module_src
   ${rime_api_src}
   ${rime_base_src}
   ${rime_config_src})
+
+# add rc info for windows MSVC build
+if(MSVC)
+  # check if HEAD on master
+  execute_process(
+    COMMAND git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD
+    WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}
+    OUTPUT_VARIABLE GIT_BRANCH
+    OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE)
+  if ("${GIT_BRANCH}" STREQUAL "master")
+    set(BUILD_RELEASE OFF)
+  else()
+    set(BUILD_RELEASE ON)
+  endif()
+  # generate tag_subfix for nightly and release
+  if(BUILD_RELEASE)
+    set(tag_subfix ".0")
+  else()
+    execute_process(
+      COMMAND git rev-parse --short HEAD
+      WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}
+      OUTPUT_VARIABLE GIT_COMMIT
+      OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE)
+    if(CMAKE_SIZEOF_VOID_P EQUAL 8)
+      set(bitsubfix "x64")
+    elseif(CMAKE_SIZEOF_VOID_P EQUAL 4)
+      set(bitsubfix "Win32")
+    endif()
+    set(tag_subfix "-${GIT_COMMIT} Nightly build ${bitsubfix}")
+  endif()
+  # set resource file
+  set(RIME_RESOURCE_FILE "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/rime.rc")
+  # convert rime_version to comma separated format
+  string(REPLACE "." "," RIME_VERSION_COMMA_SEPARATED ${rime_version})
+  # configure resource file, make version info to actually value
+  configure_file(${RIME_RESOURCE_FILE} ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/rime.rc @ONLY)
+  # append resource file to source file list
+  list(APPEND rime_core_module_src ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/rime.rc)
+endif()
+
 set(rime_dict_module_src
   ${rime_algo_src}
   ${rime_dict_src})
diff --git a/src/rime.rc b/src/rime.rc
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8318a0f748
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/rime.rc
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+#include "winver.h"
+#ifdef MSVC
+  #pragma code_page (65001)
+#endif
+
+VS_VERSION_INFO VERSIONINFO
+  FILEVERSION @RIME_VERSION_COMMA_SEPARATED@,0
+  PRODUCTVERSION @RIME_VERSION_COMMA_SEPARATED@,0
+  FILEFLAGSMASK 0x17L
+#ifdef _DEBUG
+  FILEFLAGS 0x1L
+#else
+  FILEFLAGS 0x0L
+#endif
+  FILEOS 0x40004L
+  FILETYPE 0x1L
+  FILESUBTYPE 0x0L
+BEGIN
+  BLOCK "StringFileInfo"
+  BEGIN
+    BLOCK "080404b0"
+    BEGIN
+      VALUE "Comments", "Powered by RIME | 中州韵输入法引擎"
+      VALUE "CompanyName", "式恕堂"
+      VALUE "FileDescription", "中州韵输入法引擎"
+      VALUE "InternalName", "librime"
+      VALUE "LegalCopyright", "式恕堂 版权所无"
+      VALUE "OriginalFilename", "rime.dll"
+      VALUE "ProductName", "中州韵输入法引擎"
+      VALUE "ProductVersion", "@rime_version@@tag_subfix@"
+    END
+    BLOCK "040904b0"
+    BEGIN
+      VALUE "Comments", "Powered by RIME | 中州韻輸入法引擎"
+      VALUE "CompanyName", "式恕堂"
+      VALUE "FileDescription", "中州韻輸入法引擎"
+      VALUE "InternalName", "librime"
+      VALUE "LegalCopyright", "式恕堂 版權所無"
+      VALUE "OriginalFilename", "rime.dll"
+      VALUE "ProductName", "中州韻輸入法引擎"
+      VALUE "ProductVersion", "@rime_version@@tag_subfix@"
+    END
+    BLOCK "040904E4"
+    BEGIN
+    VALUE "Comments", "Powered by RIME | Rime Input Method Engine"
+    VALUE "CompanyName", "rime.io"
+    VALUE "FileDescription", "Rime Input Method Engine"
+    VALUE "InternalName", "librime"
+    VALUE "LegalCopyright", "All Left reserved ©rime.io "
+    VALUE "OriginalFilename", "rime.dll"
+    VALUE "ProductName", "Rime Input Method Engine"
+    VALUE "ProductVersion", "@rime_version@@tag_subfix@"
+    END
+  END
+  BLOCK "VarFileInfo"
+  BEGIN
+    VALUE "Translation", 0x804, 1200
+    VALUE "Translation", 0x409, 1200
+    VALUE "Translation", 0x409, 1252
+  END
+END