diff --git a/codec/build/generate_codec_ver.sh b/codec/build/generate_codec_ver.sh
index 9c3d284d8f..761c8a6f9c 100755
--- a/codec/build/generate_codec_ver.sh
+++ b/codec/build/generate_codec_ver.sh
@@ -55,3 +55,8 @@ echo "" >>codec_ver.h
 echo "#endif  // CODEC_VER_H" >>codec_ver.h
 
 mv -f codec_ver.h ../api/svc/codec_ver.h
+
+# Ignore non-utf8 chars in the input
+export LC_ALL=C
+cat ../../openh264.rc.template | sed "s/\$MAJOR/$major/g" | sed "s/\$MINOR/$minor/g" | sed "s/\$REVISION/$revnr/g" | sed "s/\$RESERVED/$resnr/g" > openh264.rc.tmp
+mv openh264.rc.tmp ../../openh264.rc
diff --git a/openh264.rc.template b/openh264.rc.template
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5afd103bc0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/openh264.rc.template
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+
+#define APSTUDIO_READONLY_SYMBOLS
+/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+//
+// Generated from the TEXTINCLUDE 2 resource.
+//
+#include "windows.h"
+
+/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+#undef APSTUDIO_READONLY_SYMBOLS
+
+/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+// English (U.S.) resources
+
+#if !defined(AFX_RESOURCE_DLL) || defined(AFX_TARG_ENU)
+#ifdef _WIN32
+LANGUAGE LANG_ENGLISH, SUBLANG_ENGLISH_US
+#pragma code_page(1252)
+#endif //_WIN32
+
+/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+//
+// Version
+//
+
+VS_VERSION_INFO VERSIONINFO
+ FILEVERSION $MAJOR,$MINOR,$REVISION,$RESERVED
+ PRODUCTVERSION $MAJOR,$MINOR,$REVISION,$RESERVED
+ FILEFLAGSMASK 0x3fL
+#ifdef _DEBUG
+ FILEFLAGS 0x1L
+#else
+ FILEFLAGS 0x0L
+#endif
+ FILEOS 0x40004L
+ FILETYPE 0x2L
+ FILESUBTYPE 0x0L
+BEGIN
+    BLOCK "StringFileInfo"
+    BEGIN
+        BLOCK "040904b0"
+        BEGIN
+            VALUE "Comments", "Cisco OpenH264 codec"
+            VALUE "CompanyName", "Cisco Systems Inc."
+            VALUE "FileDescription", "Cisco OpenH264 codec"
+            VALUE "FileVersion", "$MAJOR.$MINOR.$REVISION.$RESERVED"
+            VALUE "InternalName", "openh264.dll"
+            VALUE "LegalCopyright", "© 2011-2015 Cisco and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved."
+            VALUE "OriginalFilename", "openh264.dll"
+            VALUE "ProductName", "Cisco OpenH264 codec"
+            VALUE "ProductVersion", "$MAJOR.$MINOR.$REVISION.$RESERVED"
+        END
+    END
+    BLOCK "VarFileInfo"
+    BEGIN
+        VALUE "Translation", 0x409, 1200
+    END
+END
+
+#endif    // English (U.S.) resources
+/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////