diff --git a/lib/runtime-core/build.rs b/lib/runtime-core/build.rs
index 015c4785f..e91238bc6 100644
--- a/lib/runtime-core/build.rs
+++ b/lib/runtime-core/build.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 use blake2b_simd::blake2bp;
-use std::{fs, io::Write, path::PathBuf};
+use std::{env, fs, io::Write, path::PathBuf};
 
 const WASMER_VERSION: &'static str = env!("CARGO_PKG_VERSION");
 
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ fn main() {
     let hasher = state.finalize();
     let hash_string = hasher.to_hex().as_str().to_owned();
 
-    let crate_dir = env!("CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR");
+    let crate_dir = env::var("OUT_DIR").unwrap();
     let wasmer_version_hash_file = {
         let mut path = PathBuf::from(&crate_dir);
         path.push("wasmer_version_hash.txt");
diff --git a/lib/runtime-core/src/cache.rs b/lib/runtime-core/src/cache.rs
index 7c29b0237..93e14b0f9 100644
--- a/lib/runtime-core/src/cache.rs
+++ b/lib/runtime-core/src/cache.rs
@@ -209,4 +209,5 @@ pub trait Cache {
 }
 
 /// A unique ID generated from the version of Wasmer for use with cache versioning
-pub const WASMER_VERSION_HASH: &'static str = include_str!("../wasmer_version_hash.txt");
+pub const WASMER_VERSION_HASH: &'static str =
+    include_str!(concat!(env!("OUT_DIR"), "/wasmer_version_hash.txt"));
diff --git a/lib/runtime-core/wasmer_version_hash.txt b/lib/runtime-core/wasmer_version_hash.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 4694153e0..000000000
--- a/lib/runtime-core/wasmer_version_hash.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-beb6542931f7f7c823b8d1804b12639fd794711af1f90263c5ed7d338bf4429d1cbe69a531f18144f208c33c49ca01315ffa2b23c170e4c979b1114ffcfbba54
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