diff --git a/cmake/GitVersion.cmake b/cmake/GitVersion.cmake
index 786ac23ed..ff719d72a 100644
--- a/cmake/GitVersion.cmake
+++ b/cmake/GitVersion.cmake
@@ -26,16 +26,6 @@ else ()
     message(WARNING "Failed to get valid version information from Git")
 endif ()
 
-# duplicated from OpenMWMacros.cmake
-macro (configure_resource_file source_path destination_dir_base dest_path_relative)
-	if (MSVC)
-		configure_file(${source_path} "${destination_dir_base}/Debug/${dest_path_relative}")
-		configure_file(${source_path} "${destination_dir_base}/Release/${dest_path_relative}")
-		configure_file(${source_path} "${destination_dir_base}/RelWithDebInfo/${dest_path_relative}")
-		configure_file(${source_path} "${destination_dir_base}/MinSizeRel/${dest_path_relative}")
-	else (MSVC)
-		configure_file(${source_path} "${destination_dir_base}/${dest_path_relative}")
-	endif (MSVC)
-endmacro (configure_resource_file)
+include(${MACROSFILE})
 
 configure_resource_file(${VERSION_IN_FILE} ${VERSION_FILE_PATH_BASE} ${VERSION_FILE_PATH_RELATIVE})
diff --git a/cmake/OpenMWMacros.cmake b/cmake/OpenMWMacros.cmake
index 08b36017b..aac38a7f6 100644
--- a/cmake/OpenMWMacros.cmake
+++ b/cmake/OpenMWMacros.cmake
@@ -199,4 +199,4 @@ macro (copy_all_resource_files source_dir destination_dir_base destination_dir_r
 		get_filename_component(filename ${f} NAME)
 		copy_resource_file("${source_dir}/${f}" "${destination_dir_base}" "${destination_dir_relative}/${filename}")
 	endforeach (f)
-endmacro (copy_all_files)
\ No newline at end of file
+endmacro (copy_all_resource_files)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/components/CMakeLists.txt b/components/CMakeLists.txt
index a8b7f1fd2..b8ade0a67 100644
--- a/components/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/components/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ if (GIT_CHECKOUT)
             -DOPENMW_VERSION_RELEASE=${OPENMW_VERSION_RELEASE}
             -DOPENMW_VERSION=${OPENMW_VERSION}
             -DMSVC=${MSVC}
+			-DMACROSFILE=${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/OpenMWMacros.cmake
             -P ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../cmake/GitVersion.cmake
             VERBATIM)
 else (GIT_CHECKOUT)