diff --git a/data/CMakeLists.txt b/data/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/data/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/data/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -20,18 +20,3 @@
 else()
     add_executable(KF5::parsetrigrams ALIAS parsetrigrams)
 endif()
-
-function(create_trigrams_map _target_name _in_DIR _out_FILE)
-    add_custom_target(trigrams_${_target_name} ALL)
-    add_custom_command(TARGET trigrams_${_target_name}
-                       COMMAND $<TARGET_FILE:KF5::parsetrigrams> "${_in_DIR}" > "${_out_FILE}"
-                      )
-
-    add_dependencies(trigrams_${_target_name} parsetrigrams)
-endfunction(create_trigrams_map)
-
-create_trigrams_map(sonnet
-                    ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/data/trigrams
-                    ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/trigrams.map
-                   )
-install(FILES ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/trigrams.map DESTINATION ${KDE_INSTALL_DATADIR_KF5}/sonnet/)
diff --git a/data/trigrams.qrc.in b/data/trigrams.qrc.in
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/data/trigrams.qrc.in
@@ -0,0 +1,6 @@
+<!DOCTYPE RCC>
+<RCC version="1.0">
+<qresource prefix="/org.kde.sonnet">
+<file alias="trigrams.map">@CMAKE_BINARY_DIR@/data/trigrams.map</file>
+</qresource>
+</RCC>
diff --git a/src/core/CMakeLists.txt b/src/core/CMakeLists.txt
--- a/src/core/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/core/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -13,6 +13,13 @@
    languagefilter.cpp
 )
 
+# create trigrams file + add trigrams resource
+add_custom_command(OUTPUT "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/data/trigrams.map"
+                   DEPENDS parsetrigrams
+                   COMMAND $<TARGET_FILE:KF5::parsetrigrams> "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/data/trigrams" > "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/data/trigrams.map")
+configure_file(${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/data/trigrams.qrc.in ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/data/trigrams.qrc @ONLY)
+qt5_add_resources(sonnetcore_SRCS "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/data/trigrams.qrc")
+
 ecm_qt_declare_logging_category(sonnetcore_SRCS HEADER core_debug.h IDENTIFIER SONNET_LOG_CORE CATEGORY_NAME sonnet.core)
 
 # Dear packagers, this is just used as an extra search paths for plugins. Don't get your panties in a twist.
diff --git a/src/core/guesslanguage.cpp b/src/core/guesslanguage.cpp
--- a/src/core/guesslanguage.cpp
+++ b/src/core/guesslanguage.cpp
@@ -624,19 +624,8 @@
 
 void GuessLanguagePrivate::loadModels()
 {
-    QString triMapFile
-        = QStandardPaths::locate(QStandardPaths::GenericDataLocation, QStringLiteral(
-                                     "kf5/sonnet/trigrams.map"));
-
-    if (triMapFile.isEmpty()) {
-#ifdef Q_OS_WIN
-        triMapFile = QStringLiteral("%1/data/kf5/sonnet/trigrams.map").arg(
-                    QCoreApplication::applicationDirPath());
-#else
-        triMapFile = QStringLiteral("%1/../share/kf5/sonnet/trigrams.map").arg(
-            QCoreApplication::applicationDirPath());
-#endif
-    }
+    // use trigrams from resource file, easy to deploy on all platforms
+    const QString triMapFile = QStringLiteral(":/org.kde.sonnet/trigrams.map");
     qCDebug(SONNET_LOG_CORE) << "Loading trigrams from" << triMapFile;
 
     QFile sin(triMapFile);