diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index db6071b4..628a5fd8 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -322,6 +322,7 @@ install(FILES
     api/baseapi.h
     api/capi.h
     api/renderer.h
+    ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/api/tess_version.h
 
     #from arch/makefile.am
     arch/dotproductavx.h
diff --git a/api/Makefile.am b/api/Makefile.am
index 855b7443..2e33ceba 100644
--- a/api/Makefile.am
+++ b/api/Makefile.am
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ AM_CPPFLAGS += -DLOCALEDIR=\"$(localedir)\"\
     -I$(top_srcdir)/textord -I$(top_srcdir)/dict \
     -I$(top_srcdir)/classify -I$(top_srcdir)/ccmain \
     -I$(top_srcdir)/wordrec -I$(top_srcdir)/cutil \
-    -I$(top_srcdir)/opencl
+    -I$(top_srcdir)/opencl -I$(top_builddir)/api
 
 AM_CPPFLAGS += $(OPENCL_CPPFLAGS)
 
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ if VISIBILITY
 AM_CPPFLAGS += -fvisibility=hidden -fvisibility-inlines-hidden
 endif
 
-include_HEADERS = apitypes.h baseapi.h capi.h renderer.h
+include_HEADERS = apitypes.h baseapi.h capi.h renderer.h tess_version.h
 lib_LTLIBRARIES = 
 
 noinst_LTLIBRARIES = libtesseract_api.la
diff --git a/api/baseapi.h b/api/baseapi.h
index 4263445e..6a7a4e81 100644
--- a/api/baseapi.h
+++ b/api/baseapi.h
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
 // To avoid collision with other typenames include the ABSOLUTE MINIMUM
 // complexity of includes here. Use forward declarations wherever possible
 // and hide includes of complex types in baseapi.cpp.
+#include "tess_version.h"
 #include "apitypes.h"
 #include "pageiterator.h"
 #include "platform.h"
diff --git a/training/Makefile.am b/training/Makefile.am
index 0c80b18f..a37239f8 100644
--- a/training/Makefile.am
+++ b/training/Makefile.am
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@ AM_CPPFLAGS += \
     -I$(top_srcdir)/viewer \
     -I$(top_srcdir)/textord -I$(top_srcdir)/dict \
     -I$(top_srcdir)/classify -I$(top_srcdir)/display \
-    -I$(top_srcdir)/wordrec -I$(top_srcdir)/cutil
+    -I$(top_srcdir)/wordrec -I$(top_srcdir)/cutil \
+    -I$(top_builddir)/api
 
 EXTRA_DIST = language-specific.sh tesstrain.sh tesstrain_utils.sh