How to Generate Windows DLL versioning information with CMake

You could use your CMake variable values in conjunction with a version.rc.in file and the configure_file command.

// version.rc.in
#define VER_FILEVERSION             @MY_PRODUCT_NUMBER@,@MY_PRODUCT_VERSION@,@MY_BUILD_NUMBER@,0
#define VER_FILEVERSION_STR         "@MY_PRODUCT_NUMBER@.@MY_PRODUCT_VERSION@.@MY_BUILD_NUMBER@.0\0"

#define VER_PRODUCTVERSION          @MY_PRODUCT_NUMBER@,@MY_PRODUCT_VERSION@,@MY_BUILD_NUMBER@,0
#define VER_PRODUCTVERSION_STR      "@MY_PRODUCT_NUMBER@.@MY_PRODUCT_VERSION@.@MY_BUILD_NUMBER@\0"
//
// ...along with the rest of the file from your "manual methods" reference

And then, in your CMakeLists.txt file:

# CMakeLists.txt
set(MY_PRODUCT_NUMBER 3)
set(MY_PRODUCT_VERSION 5)
set(MY_BUILD_NUMBER 49)

configure_file(
  ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/version.rc.in
  ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/version.rc
  @ONLY)

set(LIC_TARGET MySharedLib)
add_library(${LIC_TARGET} SHARED ${SOURCES}
  ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/version.rc)

# Alternatively you could simply include version.rc in another rc file
# if there already is one in one of the files in ${SOURCES}