--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -15,4 +15,4 @@
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.1 FATAL_ERROR)
-file(STRINGS "VERSION" SPM_VERSION)
+file(STRINGS "VERSION.txt" SPM_VERSION)
 message(STATUS "VERSION: ${SPM_VERSION}")
 project(sentencepiece VERSION ${SPM_VERSION} LANGUAGES CXX)