diff --git a/src/ifcbimtester/Makefile b/src/ifcbimtester/Makefile
index 9f4bfe17a6..4e564cc763 100644
--- a/src/ifcbimtester/Makefile
+++ b/src/ifcbimtester/Makefile
@@ -1,3 +1,30 @@
+# IfcBIMTester - BIM Gherkin testing.
+# Copyright (C) 2020-2024 Dion Moult <dion@thinkmoult.com>
+#
+# This file is part of IfcBIMTester.
+#
+# IfcBIMTester is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# IfcBIMTester is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
+# along with IfcBIMTester.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+PYTHON:=python3.11
+PIP:=pip3.11
+SED:=sed -i
+ifeq ($(UNAME_S),Darwin)
+PYTHON:=python3
+SED:=sed -i '' -e
+endif
+VERSION:=$(shell cat ../../VERSION)
+
 .PHONY: license
 license:
 	copyright-header --license LGPL3 --copyright-holder "Dion Moult <dion@thinkmoult.com>" --copyright-year "2022" --copyright-software "BIMTester" --copyright-software-description "OpenBIM Auditing Tool" -a ./ -o ./
@@ -5,3 +32,20 @@ license:
 .PHONY: qa
 qa:
 	black .
+
+.PHONY: dist
+dist:
+	rm -rf dist
+	cp pyproject.toml pyproject.toml.bak
+	cp bimtester/__init__.py __init__.py.bak
+	$(SED) 's/version = "0.0.0"/version = "$(VERSION)"/' pyproject.toml
+	$(SED) 's/version = "0.0.0"/version = "$(VERSION)"/' bimtester/__init__.py
+	mkdir -p dist/working
+	cd dist/working && $(PYTHON) -m venv env
+	cd dist/working && . env/bin/activate && $(PIP) install pybabel
+	cd dist/working && . env/bin/activate && $(PIP) install babel
+	cd dist/working/ && . env/bin/activate && ./env/bin/pybabel compile -d ../../bimtester/locale/
+	python -m build
+	mv pyproject.toml.bak pyproject.toml
+	mv __init__.py.bak bimtester/__init__.py
+	rm -rf dist/working
diff --git a/src/ifcbimtester/bimtester/__init__.py b/src/ifcbimtester/bimtester/__init__.py
index 9022228049..d76bea9460 100644
--- a/src/ifcbimtester/bimtester/__init__.py
+++ b/src/ifcbimtester/bimtester/__init__.py
@@ -19,5 +19,6 @@
 from os.path import dirname
 from os.path import realpath
 
+__version__ = version = "0.0.0"
 
 package_path = dirname(realpath(__file__))