diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 2864a6118..8b4919410 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -108,18 +108,6 @@ add_project_arguments(
     cc.get_supported_arguments(possible_cc_flags),
     language : 'c')
 
-vcs_tagger = [meson.source_root() + '/misc/meson-vcs-tag.sh',
-              meson.source_root(),
-              get_option('version-tag'),
-              meson.project_version()]
-
-version_h = vcs_tag(
-        input : 'src/version.h.in',
-        output : 'version.h',
-        command: vcs_tagger)
-
-versiondep = declare_dependency(sources: version_h)
-
 subdir('configs')
 subdir('lib')
 subdir('src')
diff --git a/meson_options.txt b/meson_options.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 816f0669f..000000000
--- a/meson_options.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-# Copyright (C) 2019 by Sukchan Lee <acetcom@gmail.com>
-
-# This file is part of Open5GS.
-
-# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it under the terms of the GNU Affero General Public License as published by
-# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 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, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-
-option('version-tag', type : 'string',
-       description : 'override the git version string')
diff --git a/misc/meson-vcs-tag.sh b/misc/meson-vcs-tag.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 5dc95fa8c..000000000
--- a/misc/meson-vcs-tag.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,22 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-set -eu
-set -o pipefail
-
-dir="$1"
-tag="$2"
-fallback="$3"
-
-if [ -n "$tag" ]; then
-    echo "$tag"
-    exit 0
-fi
-
-# Apparently git describe has a bug where it always considers the work-tree
-# dirty when invoked with --git-dir (even though 'git status' is happy). Work
-# around this issue by cd-ing to the source directory.
-cd "$dir"
-# Check that we have either .git/ (a normal clone) or a .git file (a work-tree)
-# and that we don't get confused if a tarball is extracted in a higher-level
-# git repository.
-[ -e .git ] && git describe --abbrev=7 --dirty=+ 2>/dev/null | sed 's/^v//' || echo "$fallback"
diff --git a/src/meson.build b/src/meson.build
index 7e3638064..1774e3726 100644
--- a/src/meson.build
+++ b/src/meson.build
@@ -17,6 +17,21 @@
 
 srcinc = include_directories('.')
 
+#version_conf = configuration_data()
+#version_conf.set_quoted('OPEN5GS_VERSION', meson.project_version())
+#configure_file(output : 'version.h', configuration : version_conf)
+
+version_data = configuration_data()
+version_data.set_quoted('OPEN5GS_VERSION', '@VCS_TAG@')
+
+version_h = vcs_tag(
+    input : configure_file(
+        output : 'version.h.in',
+        configuration : version_data),
+    output : 'version.h')
+
+versiondep = declare_dependency(sources: version_h)
+
 subdir('mme')
 subdir('hss')
 subdir('sgw')
diff --git a/src/version.h.in b/src/version.h.in
deleted file mode 100644
index c4075c3bc..000000000
--- a/src/version.h.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-#define OPEN5GS_VERSION "@VCS_TAG@"