Index: AssemblyInfo.cs.in
===================================================================
--- AssemblyInfo.cs.in	(revision 0)
+++ AssemblyInfo.cs.in	(revision 0)
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+// AssemblyInfo.cs.in:
+//
+// cilc -- a CIL-to-C binding generator
+// Copyright (C) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 Alp Toker <alp@atoker.com>
+// Licensed under the terms of the MIT License
+
+using System.Reflection;
+using System.Runtime.CompilerServices;
+
+[assembly: AssemblyVersion("@VERSION@")]
+[assembly: AssemblyTitle ("Mono CIL-to-C binding generator")]
+[assembly: AssemblyDescription ("Mono CIL-to-C binding generator")]
+[assembly: AssemblyCopyright ("2002-2007 Novell, Inc.")]
+[assembly: AssemblyCompany ("Novell, Inc.")]
+[assembly: AssemblyDelaySign(true)]
+[assembly: AssemblyKeyFile("@top_srcdir@/src/mono.pub")]
Index: cilc.exe.sources
===================================================================
--- cilc.exe.sources	(revision 82414)
+++ cilc.exe.sources	(working copy)
@@ -1,2 +1,3 @@
+AssemblyInfo.cs
 cilc.cs
 CodeWriter.cs
Index: cilc.cs
===================================================================
--- cilc.cs	(revision 82414)
+++ cilc.cs	(working copy)
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 	public static int Main (string[] args)
 	{
 		if (args.Length < 1 || args.Length > 4) {
-			Console.WriteLine ("Mono CIL-to-C binding generator");
+			ShowVersion();
 			Console.WriteLine ("Usage: cilc assembly [target] [pkg ns[,ns...]]");
 			return 1;
 		}
@@ -1340,4 +1340,17 @@
 
 		return o;
 	}
+	
+	static void ShowVersion ()
+	{
+    	    Assembly assembly = Assembly.GetExecutingAssembly ();
+	    string version = assembly.GetName ().Version.ToString ();
+            object [] att = assembly.GetCustomAttributes (typeof (AssemblyTitleAttribute), false);
+            att = assembly.GetCustomAttributes (typeof (AssemblyCopyrightAttribute), false);
+            string copyright = ((AssemblyCopyrightAttribute) att [0]).Copyright;
+            att = assembly.GetCustomAttributes (typeof (AssemblyDescriptionAttribute), false);
+            string description = ((AssemblyDescriptionAttribute) att [0]).Description;
+            Console.WriteLine ("{0} {1}\n(c) {2}\n{3}",
+                Path.GetFileName (assembly.Location), version, copyright, description);
+        }
 }