1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/wscript b/wscript
index 9a2cd5f..a90752a 100644
--- a/wscript
+++ b/wscript
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ APPNAME = 'libasdcp-carl'
 
 if os.path.exists('.git'):
     this_version = subprocess.Popen(shlex.split('git tag -l --points-at HEAD'), stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0].decode('utf-8')
-    last_version = subprocess.Popen(shlex.split('git describe --tags --abbrev=0'), stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0]
+    last_version = subprocess.Popen(shlex.split('git describe --tags --abbrev=0'), stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0].decode('utf-8')
     if this_version == '':
         VERSION = '%sdevel' % last_version[1:].strip()
     else: