diff --git a/src/CMakeLists.txt b/src/CMakeLists.txt
index b6adca0..a51334a 100644
--- a/src/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -37,6 +37,11 @@ target_link_libraries( kpmcore PUBLIC
     KF5::CoreAddons
     KF5::WidgetsAddons
 )
+generate_export_header(kpmcore
+    BASE_NAME LIBKPMCORE
+    EXPORT_FILE_NAME util/libpartitionmanagerexport.h
+)
+list(APPEND UTIL_LIB_HDRS ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/util/libpartitionmanagerexport.h)
 
 install(TARGETS kpmcore EXPORT KPMcoreTargets  ${INSTALL_TARGETS_DEFAULT_ARGS})
 install(FILES ${CORE_LIB_HDRS} DESTINATION ${INCLUDE_INSTALL_DIR}/kpmcore/core/ COMPONENT Devel)
diff --git a/src/util/CMakeLists.txt b/src/util/CMakeLists.txt
index bfe06f7..f22f48f 100644
--- a/src/util/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/util/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ set(UTIL_SRC
 )
 
 set(UTIL_LIB_HDRS
-    util/libpartitionmanagerexport.h
     util/capacity.h
     util/externalcommand.h
     util/globallog.h
diff --git a/src/util/libpartitionmanagerexport.h b/src/util/libpartitionmanagerexport.h
deleted file mode 100644
index fb51932..0000000
--- a/src/util/libpartitionmanagerexport.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-/*
-    SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 Volker Lanz <vl@fidra.de>
-    SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2014-2018 Andrius Štikonas <andrius@stikonas.eu>
-    SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Chris Campbell <c.j.campbell@ed.ac.uk>
-
-    SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
-*/
-
-#ifndef LIBKPMCORE_EXPORT
-
-#include <QtGlobal>
-#define LIBKPMCORE_EXPORT Q_DECL_EXPORT
-
-#endif