diff --git a/src/util/meson.build b/src/util/meson.build
index 2fe6f7699e..f055079d0b 100644
--- a/src/util/meson.build
+++ b/src/util/meson.build
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@ keyname_list = [
   'win32',
 ]
 
-keymap_gen_prog = find_program('@0@/src/keycodemapdb/tools/keymap-gen'.format(meson.project_source_root()))
+keymap_gen_prog = find_program('keymap-gen', dirs: [meson.project_source_root() / 'src' / 'keycodemapdb' / 'tools' ])
 keymap_src_file = '@0@/src/keycodemapdb/data/keymaps.csv'.format(meson.project_source_root())
 
 foreach name : keycode_list