diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 1e05a50af8..e8868ed92d 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools", "setuptools-scm"]
+requires = ["setuptools"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
@@ -36,4 +36,4 @@ ck4inductor = "python/ck4inductor"
 "ck4inductor.library" = ["src/tensor_operation_instance/gpu/gemm_universal/**/*.hpp", "src/tensor_operation_instance/gpu/gemm_universal_batched/**/*.hpp", "include/ck/library/tensor_operation_instance/gpu/grouped_conv_fwd/**/*.hpp"]
 
 [tool.setuptools.dynamic]
-version = { attr = "setuptools_scm.get_version" }
+version = { attr = "ck4inductor.__version__" }
diff --git a/python/ck4inductor/__init__.py b/python/ck4inductor/__init__.py
index e69de29bb2..ac44aeb777 100644
--- a/python/ck4inductor/__init__.py
+++ b/python/ck4inductor/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+def __version__():
+    import subprocess
+
+    # needs to be manually updated
+    rocm_version = "7.0.1"
+    hash_width = 6
+    try:
+        hash = subprocess.check_output("git rev-parse HEAD", shell=True, text=True)[
+            :hash_width
+        ]
+    except:
+        hash = "0" * hash_width
+    try:
+        change_count = subprocess.check_output(
+            f"git rev-list rocm-{rocm_version}..HEAD --count", shell=True, text=True
+        ).strip()
+    except:
+        change_count = "0"
+    return f"{rocm_version}.dev{change_count}+g{hash}"