diff --git a/Makefile.in b/Makefile.in
index 249f85c78..f94707363 100644
--- a/Makefile.in
+++ b/Makefile.in
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ O = main.o async.o design_dump.o discipline.o dup_expr.o elaborate.o \
     PGate.o PGenerate.o PModport.o PNamedItem.o PPackage.o PScope.o PSpec.o PTimingCheck.o \
     PTask.o PUdp.o PWire.o Statement.o AStatement.o $M $(FF) $(TT)
 
-all: dep config.h _pli_types.h version_tag.h ivl@EXEEXT@ version.exe iverilog-vpi.man
+all: dep config.h _pli_types.h version_tag.h version_base.h ivl@EXEEXT@ iverilog-vpi.man
 	$(foreach dir,$(SUBDIRS),$(MAKE) -C $(dir) $@ && ) true
 
 # In the windows world, the installer will need a dosify program to
@@ -173,7 +173,6 @@ clean:
 	rm -f parse.output syn-rules.output dosify$(BUILDEXT) ivl@EXEEXT@ check.vvp
 	rm -f lexor_keyword.cc libivl.a libvpi.a iverilog-vpi syn-rules.cc version_base.h
 	rm -rf dep
-	rm -f version.exe
 
 distclean: clean
 	$(foreach dir,$(SUBDIRS),$(MAKE) -C $(dir) $@ && ) true
@@ -256,9 +255,6 @@ endif
 version_base.h: $(srcdir)/version_base.h.in config.status
 	./config.status --file=$@
 
-version.exe: $(srcdir)/version.c version_base.h version_tag.h
-	$(BUILDCC) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) -o version.exe -I. -I$(srcdir) $(srcdir)/version.c
-
 %.o: %.cc config.h | dep
 	$(CXX) $(CPPFLAGS) $(CXXFLAGS) @DEPENDENCY_FLAG@ -c $< -o $*.o
 	mv $*.d dep/$*.d
diff --git a/version.c b/version.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 64e4178c2..000000000
--- a/version.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,85 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Copyright (c) 2009-2015 Stephen Williams (steve@icarus.com)
- *
- *    This source code is free software; you can redistribute it
- *    and/or modify it in source code form under the terms of the GNU
- *    General Public License as published by the Free Software
- *    Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option)
- *    any later version.
- *
- *    This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
- *    but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
- *    MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
- *    GNU General Public License for more details.
- *
- *    You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- *    along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- *    Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.
- */
-
-# include  "version_base.h"
-# include  "version_tag.h"
-# include  <stdio.h>
-# include  <string.h>
-
-static void run_string(const char*txt)
-{
-      const char*cp = txt;
-      while (*cp) {
-	    if (cp[0] == '%' && cp[1] != 0) {
-		  switch (cp[1]) {
-		      case 'M':
-			fprintf(stdout, "%d", VERSION_MAJOR);
-			break;
-		      case 'n':
-			fprintf(stdout, "%d", VERSION_MINOR);
-			break;
-		      case 'E':
-			fprintf(stdout, "%s", VERSION_EXTRA);
-			break;
-		      case 'T':
-			fprintf(stdout, "%s", VERSION_TAG);
-			break;
-		      case '%':
-			putc('%', stdout);
-			break;
-		      default:
-			break;
-		  }
-		  cp += 2;
-
-	    } else if (cp[0] == '\\' && cp[1] != 0) {
-		  switch (cp[1]) {
-		      case 'n':
-			putc('\n', stdout);
-			break;
-		      default:
-			putc(cp[1], stdout);
-			break;
-		  }
-		  cp += 2;
-
-	    } else {
-		  putc(cp[0], stdout);
-		  cp += 1;
-	    }
-      }
-}
-
-int main(int argc, char*argv[])
-{
-      int idx;
-
-      if (argc == 1) {
-	    printf("%s\n", VERSION);
-	    return 0;
-      }
-
-      run_string(argv[1]);
-      for (idx = 2 ; idx < argc ; idx += 1) {
-	    printf(" ");
-	    run_string(argv[idx]);
-      }
-
-      return 0;
-}