diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index f4c8532..4ac12e9 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -5,3 +5,4 @@ discord-auto-upload.exe
 *.png
 *.jpg
 .DS_Store
+versioninfo.json
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/build-release.pl b/build-release.pl
index 95607e7..d5eaa5d 100755
--- a/build-release.pl
+++ b/build-release.pl
@@ -2,17 +2,27 @@
 
 use strict;
 use warnings;
+use Mojo::JSON qw/encode_json decode_json/;
+use Mojo::File;
 
 open my $fh, "<", "version/version.go" || die $!;
 
 my $version;
 while (<$fh>) {
-  $version = $1 if /^const\s+CurrentVersion.*?"(v[\d\.]+)"/;
+  $version = $1 if /^const\s+CurrentVersion.*?"v([\d\.]+)"/;
 }
 close $fh;
-
 die "no version?" unless defined $version;
 
+my @version_parts = split /\./, $version;
+die "bad version?" unless defined $version_parts[2];
+
+foreach (@version_parts) {
+  $_ = 0 + $_;
+}
+
+$version = "v$version";
+
 # quit if tests fail
 system("go test ./...") && die "not building release with failing tests";
 
@@ -42,6 +52,20 @@ foreach my $type (keys %build) {
 
   my @ldflags = ();
   if ($type eq "win") {
+    # create the versioninfo.json based on the current version
+    my $tmp = Mojo::File->new("versioninfo.json-template")->slurp();
+    my $vdata = decode_json($tmp);
+    $vdata->{FixedFileInfo}->{FileVersion}->{Major} = $version_parts[0] ;
+    $vdata->{FixedFileInfo}->{FileVersion}->{Minor} = $version_parts[1] ;
+    $vdata->{FixedFileInfo}->{FileVersion}->{Patch} = $version_parts[2] ;
+    $vdata->{FixedFileInfo}->{ProductVersion}->{Major} = $version_parts[0] ;
+    $vdata->{FixedFileInfo}->{ProductVersion}->{Minor} = $version_parts[1] ;
+    $vdata->{FixedFileInfo}->{ProductVersion}->{Patch} = $version_parts[2] ;
+
+    $vdata->{StringFileInfo}->{ProductVersion} = $version;
+
+    Mojo::File->new("versioninfo.json")->spurt(encode_json($vdata));
+
     @ldflags = (qw/ -ldflags -H=windowsgui/);
     system "go", "generate";
   }
diff --git a/dau_windows.go b/dau_windows.go
index a1eacda..29d4510 100644
--- a/dau_windows.go
+++ b/dau_windows.go
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ import (
 //go:embed dau.ico
 var appIcon []byte
 
-//go:generate goversioninfo -icon=dau.ico
+//go:generate goversioninfo
 
 // -manifest=testdata/resource/goversioninfo.exe.manifest
 
diff --git a/versioninfo.json b/versioninfo.json-template
similarity index 69%
rename from versioninfo.json
rename to versioninfo.json-template
index 7f5b906..fc6cb64 100644
--- a/versioninfo.json
+++ b/versioninfo.json-template
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 {
     "FixedFileInfo": {
         "FileVersion": {
-            "Major": 1,
+            "Major": 0,
             "Minor": 0,
             "Patch": 0,
             "Build": 0
         },
         "ProductVersion": {
-            "Major": 1,
+            "Major": 0,
             "Minor": 0,
             "Patch": 0,
             "Build": 0
@@ -20,16 +20,16 @@
     },
     "StringFileInfo": {
         "Comments": "",
-        "CompanyName": "",
-        "FileDescription": "",
+        "CompanyName": "tardisx@github",
+        "FileDescription": "https://github.com/tardisx/discord-auto-upload",
         "FileVersion": "",
         "InternalName": "",
-        "LegalCopyright": "",
+        "LegalCopyright": "https://github.com/tardisx/discord-auto-upload/blob/master/LICENSE",
         "LegalTrademarks": "",
         "OriginalFilename": "",
         "PrivateBuild": "",
-        "ProductName": "",
-        "ProductVersion": "v1.0.0.0",
+        "ProductName": "discord-auto-upload",
+        "ProductVersion": "v0.0.0",
         "SpecialBuild": ""
     },
     "VarFileInfo": {