diff --git a/src/corelib/Qt5CoreMacros.cmake b/src/corelib/Qt5CoreMacros.cmake
index 3a60b8e0d2d..7735e51012b 100644
--- a/src/corelib/Qt5CoreMacros.cmake
+++ b/src/corelib/Qt5CoreMacros.cmake
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ macro(QT5_MAKE_OUTPUT_FILE infile prefix ext outfile )
     set(_outfile "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/${rel}")
     string(REPLACE ".." "__" _outfile ${_outfile})
     get_filename_component(outpath ${_outfile} PATH)
-    get_filename_component(_outfile ${_outfile} NAME_WE)
+    string(REGEX REPLACE "\\.[^.]*$" "" _outfile ${_outfile})
     file(MAKE_DIRECTORY ${outpath})
     set(${outfile} ${outpath}/${prefix}${_outfile}.${ext})
 endmacro()