diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 55307134b..55976b169 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@
 /src/mmg/mmg-gui
 /src/mmg-qt/forms/*.h
 /src/mmg-qt/mmg-qt
+/src/mmg-qt/resources.cpp
 /src/tools/ac3parser
 /src/tools/base64tool
 /src/tools/diracparser
diff --git a/src/mmg-qt/main_window.cpp b/src/mmg-qt/main_window.cpp
index cd13aafac..970a66a12 100644
--- a/src/mmg-qt/main_window.cpp
+++ b/src/mmg-qt/main_window.cpp
@@ -14,6 +14,10 @@ MainWindow::MainWindow(QWidget *parent)
   , ui{new Ui::MainWindow}
 {
   ui->setupUi(this);
+
+  QIcon icon{":/icons/32x32/mkvmergeGUI.png"};
+  icon.addFile(":/icons/64x64/mkvmergeGUI.png");
+  setWindowIcon(icon);
 }
 
 MainWindow::~MainWindow() {
diff --git a/src/mmg-qt/resources.qrc b/src/mmg-qt/resources.qrc
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6ccee447e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/mmg-qt/resources.qrc
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE RCC>
+<RCC version="1.0">
+ <qresource>
+  <file alias="icons/32x32/mkvextract.png">../../share/icons/32x32/mkvextract.png</file>
+  <file alias="icons/32x32/mkvinfo.png">../../share/icons/32x32/mkvinfo.png</file>
+  <file alias="icons/32x32/mkvmergeGUI.png">../../share/icons/32x32/mkvmergeGUI.png</file>
+  <file alias="icons/32x32/mkvmerge.png">../../share/icons/32x32/mkvmerge.png</file>
+  <file alias="icons/32x32/mkvpropedit.png">../../share/icons/32x32/mkvpropedit.png</file>
+  <file alias="icons/64x64/mkvextract.png">../../share/icons/64x64/mkvextract.png</file>
+  <file alias="icons/64x64/mkvinfo.png">../../share/icons/64x64/mkvinfo.png</file>
+  <file alias="icons/64x64/mkvmergeGUI.png">../../share/icons/64x64/mkvmergeGUI.png</file>
+  <file alias="icons/64x64/mkvmerge.png">../../share/icons/64x64/mkvmerge.png</file>
+  <file alias="icons/64x64/mkvpropedit.png">../../share/icons/64x64/mkvpropedit.png</file>
+ </qresource>
+</RCC>