diff --git a/tools/widl/widl.c b/tools/widl/widl.c
index f3302398a2b..2c4a3c6cee5 100644
--- a/tools/widl/widl.c
+++ b/tools/widl/widl.c
@@ -32,8 +32,6 @@
 #include <ctype.h>
 #include <signal.h>
 
-#define WIDL_FULLVERSION "0.1"
-
 #include "widl.h"
 #include "utils.h"
 #include "parser.h"
@@ -77,7 +75,7 @@ static char usage[] =
 "    * 0x20 Preprocessor yacc trace\n"
 ;
 
-static const char version_string[] = "Wine IDL Compiler Version " WIDL_FULLVERSION "\n"
+static const char version_string[] = "Wine IDL Compiler version " PACKAGE_VERSION "\n"
 			"Copyright 2002 Ove Kaaven\n";
 
 int win32 = 1;
@@ -298,7 +296,7 @@ int main(int argc,char *argv[])
       fprintf(stderr, "Could not open %s for output\n", header_name);
       return 1;
     }
-    fprintf(header, "/*** Autogenerated by WIDL %s from %s - Do not edit ***/\n", WIDL_FULLVERSION, input_name);
+    fprintf(header, "/*** Autogenerated by WIDL %s from %s - Do not edit ***/\n", PACKAGE_VERSION, input_name);
     fprintf(header, "#include <rpc.h>\n" );
     fprintf(header, "#include <rpcndr.h>\n\n" );
     fprintf(header, "#ifndef __WIDL_%s\n", header_token);