diff --git a/src/tools/qml2puppet/CMakeLists.txt b/src/tools/qml2puppet/CMakeLists.txt
index d26cf959691..2f5d0d82923 100644
--- a/src/tools/qml2puppet/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/tools/qml2puppet/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ find_package(Qt5
 )
 
 if (NOT TARGET QmlPuppetCommunication)
-include(../../libs/qmlpuppetcommunication/QmlPuppetCommunication.cmake)
+  include(../../libs/qmlpuppetcommunication/QmlPuppetCommunication.cmake)
 endif()
 
 add_qtc_executable(qml2puppet
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ extend_qtc_executable(qml2puppet
     qmlprivategate.cpp qmlprivategate.h
 )
 
-if(DEFINED MULTILANGUAGE_SUPPORT_SUBDIRECTORY AND Qt6_VERSION VERSION_GREATER_EQUAL 6.2.1)
+if (DEFINED MULTILANGUAGE_SUPPORT_SUBDIRECTORY AND Qt6_VERSION VERSION_GREATER_EQUAL 6.2.1)
   add_subdirectory(${MULTILANGUAGE_SUPPORT_SUBDIRECTORY} multilanguagesupport_static_build)
 endif()
 
@@ -244,3 +244,27 @@ extend_qtc_executable(qml2puppet
     ENABLE_CRASHPAD
   DEPENDS Crashpad::Crashpad
 )
+
+# add application icon
+if (TARGET qml2puppet)
+    if (WIN32)
+      set(RC_APPLICATION_NAME "${IDE_DISPLAY_NAME}")
+      set(RC_VERSION "${IDE_VERSION}.0")
+      set(RC_VERSION_STRING "${IDE_VERSION_DISPLAY}")
+      set(RC_COPYRIGHT "2008-${IDE_COPYRIGHT_YEAR} The Qt Company Ltd")
+
+      string(REPLACE " " "\\x20" RC_APPLICATION_NAME "${RC_APPLICATION_NAME}")
+      string(REPLACE " " "\\x20" RC_COPYRIGHT "${RC_COPYRIGHT}")
+      string(REPLACE "." "," RC_VERSION "${RC_VERSION}")
+
+      target_compile_definitions(qml2puppet PRIVATE
+        RC_APPLICATION_NAME=${RC_APPLICATION_NAME}
+        RC_VERSION=${RC_VERSION}
+        RC_VERSION_STRING=${RC_VERSION_STRING}
+        RC_COPYRIGHT=${RC_COPYRIGHT}
+        RC_ICON_PATH=${IDE_ICON_PATH}
+      )
+
+      target_sources(qml2puppet PRIVATE windows_application_icon/qml2puppet.rc)
+    endif()
+endif()
diff --git a/src/tools/qml2puppet/windows_application_icon/qml2puppet.rc b/src/tools/qml2puppet/windows_application_icon/qml2puppet.rc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b2d07923e3f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/tools/qml2puppet/windows_application_icon/qml2puppet.rc
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+#include <windows.h>
+
+#define STRINGIFY1(x) #x
+#define STRINGIFY(x) STRINGIFY1(x)
+
+#define ICON_PATH STRINGIFY(RC_ICON_PATH/qtcreator.ico)
+
+IDI_ICON1               ICON    DISCARDABLE     ICON_PATH
+
+VS_VERSION_INFO VERSIONINFO
+    FILEVERSION    RC_VERSION
+    PRODUCTVERSION RC_VERSION
+{
+    BLOCK "StringFileInfo"
+    {
+       // U.S. English - Windows, Multilingual
+       BLOCK "040904E4"
+       {
+          VALUE "FileDescription", STRINGIFY(RC_APPLICATION_NAME)
+          VALUE "FileVersion", STRINGIFY(RC_VERSION_STRING)
+          VALUE "ProductName", STRINGIFY(RC_APPLICATION_NAME)
+          VALUE "ProductVersion", STRINGIFY(RC_VERSION_STRING)
+          VALUE "LegalCopyright", STRINGIFY(RC_COPYRIGHT)
+        }
+    }
+    BLOCK "VarFileInfo"
+    {
+        VALUE "Translation", 0x409, 1252 // 1252 = 0x04E4
+    }
+}