diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 72118d34281f9..bf3a974749021 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -223,6 +223,7 @@ add_custom_command(OUTPUT ${CORE_BUILD_DIR}/xbmc/CompileInfo.cpp
                                             -Dprefix=${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/${CORE_BUILD_DIR}
                                             -P ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/scripts/common/GenerateVersionedFiles.cmake
                    DEPENDS ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/version.txt
+                           export-files
                            ${ADDON_XML_DEPENDS}
                            ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/xbmc/CompileInfo.cpp.in)
 list(APPEND install_data ${ADDON_INSTALL_DATA})
diff --git a/cmake/scripts/common/GenerateVersionedFiles.cmake b/cmake/scripts/common/GenerateVersionedFiles.cmake
index 1d324db9c57a8..d54b5242197fa 100644
--- a/cmake/scripts/common/GenerateVersionedFiles.cmake
+++ b/cmake/scripts/common/GenerateVersionedFiles.cmake
@@ -24,9 +24,6 @@ foreach(loop_var ${ADDON_XML_IN_FILE})
   string(REPLACE ${CORE_SOURCE_DIR} ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR} dest_dir ${source_dir})
   file(MAKE_DIRECTORY ${dest_dir})
 
-  # copy everything except addon.xml.in to build folder
-  file(COPY "${source_dir}" DESTINATION "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/addons" REGEX ".xml.in" EXCLUDE)
-
   configure_file(${source_dir}/addon.xml.in ${dest_dir}/addon.xml @ONLY)
 
   unset(source_dir)