There are several ways, but I don't think Qt can access Windows resources directly yet (Which the version resource is stored as), so you would have to parse the exe file yourself. An easier alternative (which also gives greater flexibility, but will not show up under Properties) would be to insert your own version information into a unique token in the file (eg. a structure starting with the string "$$VER_INFO$$" for example). For an installer, I'd probably use the later, and just use the former for the human readable part.