Do I need afxres.h, if I am not using MFC? How do I remove it from the .RC script?

Question

I don't know RC scripts.

I want to include Product version, File version, etc. metadata into a DLL I'm building. I'm using an .rc file to do that. The build is makefile driven. I'm following along with an example .rc scrpit I found.

The template .rc file includes afxres.h , but I don't think I need that. But if I just remove it I get a bunch of compile errors.

What does a basic, non-MFC RC script look like? Can I remove all the stuff like this:

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
// 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

....

Answer 1

My answer:
NO, I don't need all that crap. Here's an RC script that works for VERSIONINFO.

#define VER_FILEVERSION          1,2,3,4
#define VER_FILEVERSION_STR      "1.2.3.4"
#define VER_PRODUCTVERSION       1,2,0,0
#define VER_PRODUCTVERSION_STR   "1.2.0.0"

// -------------------------------------------------------

VS_VERSION_INFO VERSIONINFO
 FILEVERSION            VER_FILEVERSION
 PRODUCTVERSION         VER_PRODUCTVERSION
 FILEFLAGSMASK 0x17L
#ifdef _DEBUG
 FILEFLAGS 0x1L
#else
 FILEFLAGS 0x0L
#endif
 FILEOS 0x4L
 FILETYPE 0x2L
 FILESUBTYPE 0x0L
BEGIN
BLOCK "StringFileInfo"
BEGIN
    BLOCK "040904b0"
    BEGIN
    VALUE "CompanyName",      "Company X"
    VALUE "FileDescription",  "Description Goes Here"
    VALUE "InternalName",     "NotSure"
    VALUE "LegalCopyright",   "Copyright (C) 2009 Your Name Here"
    VALUE "OriginalFilename", "DllName.dll"
    VALUE "ProductName",      "Product Title"
    VALUE "FileVersion",      VER_FILEVERSION_STR
    VALUE "ProductVersion",   VER_PRODUCTVERSION_STR
    END
END
BLOCK "VarFileInfo"
BEGIN
    VALUE "Translation", 0x409, 1200
END
END

Conmpile it with:

$(WindowsSDK)\bin\RC.exe /FoProjectName.res ProjectName.rc