diff --git a/src/apps/marble-kde/marble.rc b/src/apps/marble-kde/marble.rc
deleted file mode 100644
index 29fa585db..000000000
--- a/src/apps/marble-kde/marble.rc
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-IDI_ICON1		ICON		DISCARDABLE	"../data/ico/marble.ico"
diff --git a/src/apps/marble-qt/CMakeLists.txt b/src/apps/marble-qt/CMakeLists.txt
index df4f58683..7d16bd793 100644
--- a/src/apps/marble-qt/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/apps/marble-qt/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,73 +1,81 @@
 set(marble_SRCS qtmain.cpp QtMainWindow.cpp)
 include_directories(${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}
                     ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../marble-ui)
 
+if(MSVC)
+  set(marble_SRCS ${marble_SRCS} marble.rc)
+endif(MSVC)
+
+if(MINGW)
+   QT4_ADD_RESOURCES2(marble_SRCS marble.rc)
+endif(MINGW)
+
 qt_wrap_ui(marble_SRCS ${marble_UI})
 marble_qt4_automoc(${marble_SRCS})
 
 if (WIN32)
     add_executable (marble-qt WIN32 ${marble_SRCS})
 else (WIN32)
     if (APPLE)
         add_executable (marble-qt MACOSX_BUNDLE ${marble_SRCS})
         # For Mac OS X, the executable must be at the root of the bundle's executable folder
         INSTALL(TARGETS marble-qt RUNTIME DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX})
     else (APPLE)
         add_executable (marble-qt ${marble_SRCS})
     endif (APPLE)
 endif (WIN32)
 
 if (QT4_FOUND)
   target_link_libraries (
     marble-qt
     ${QT_QTCORE_LIBRARY}
     ${QT_QTDBUS_LIBRARY}
     ${QT_QTGUI_LIBRARY}
     ${QT_QTXML_LIBRARY}
     ${QT_QTSVG_LIBRARY}
     ${QT_QTNETWORK_LIBRARY}
     ${QT_QTSCRIPT_LIBRARY}
     ${QT_QTMAIN_LIBRARY}
     marbleui
     marblewidget)
 else()
   target_link_libraries (
     marble-qt
     ${Qt5Core_LIBRARIES}
     ${Qt5Xml_LIBRARIES}
     ${Qt5Widgets_LIBRARIES}
     ${Qt5PrintSupport_LIBRARIES}
     ${Qt5Network_LIBRARIES}
     ${Qt5WebKitWidgets_LIBRARIES}
     ${Qt5WebKit_LIBRARIES}
     marbleui
     marblewidget)
 endif()
 
 if(WIN32)
   target_link_libraries(
     marble-qt
     ws2_32 
     imm32 
     winmm
     )
 endif(WIN32)
 
 ## this works for win32 only because FindQt4 does not handle this correct
 if(STATIC_BUILD)
     target_link_libraries(marble ${QT_PLUGINS_DIR}/imageformats/qjpeg.lib)
     target_link_libraries(marble ${QT_PLUGINS_DIR}/imageformats/qsvg.lib)
 endif(STATIC_BUILD)
 
 if(WIN32)
 install (TARGETS marble-qt RUNTIME DESTINATION ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX})
 else(WIN32)
 if (APPLE)
   # No need for this when installing to a bundle
 else (APPLE)
     install (TARGETS marble-qt RUNTIME DESTINATION bin )
 endif (APPLE)
 endif(WIN32)
 if(APPS_INSTALL_DIR)
   install(PROGRAMS marble-qt.desktop DESTINATION ${APPS_INSTALL_DIR})
 endif(APPS_INSTALL_DIR)
diff --git a/src/apps/marble-qt/marble.rc b/src/apps/marble-qt/marble.rc
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..48b61a6de
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/apps/marble-qt/marble.rc
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+IDI_ICON1		ICON		DISCARDABLE	"../../../data/ico/marble.ico"