diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 8a04f8e..d1dfbda 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -141,16 +141,15 @@ ifdef CONFIG_USE_LIBGCC
 LIBTCC1=
 endif
 
-TCCLIBS := $(LIBTCC1) $(LIBTCC) $(BCHECK_O)
-TCCDOCS := tcc.1 tcc-doc.html tcc-doc.info
-TCCEXS := $(patsubst ex%.c.template,ex%.c,$(wildcard examples/ex*.c.template))
+TCCLIBS = $(LIBTCC1) $(LIBTCC) $(BCHECK_O)
+TCCDOCS = tcc.1 tcc-doc.html tcc-doc.info
 
 ifdef CONFIG_CROSS
 PROGS+=$(PROGS_CROSS)
 TCCLIBS+=$(LIBTCC1_CROSS)
 endif
 
-all: $(PROGS) $(TCCLIBS) $(TCCDOCS) $(TCCEXS)
+all: $(PROGS) $(TCCLIBS) $(TCCDOCS)
 
 # Host Tiny C Compiler
 tcc$(EXESUF): tcc.o $(LIBTCC)
@@ -325,11 +324,6 @@ tcc.1: tcc-doc.texi
 tcc-doc.info: tcc-doc.texi
 	-makeinfo tcc-doc.texi
 
-# examples
-examples/ex%.c: examples/ex%.c.template
-	sed '1s/@BINDIR@/$(subst /,\/,$(bindir))/' $< > $@
-	chmod a+x $@
-
 .PHONY: all clean tar distclean install uninstall FORCE
 
 # tar release (use 'make -k tar' on a checkouted tree)
@@ -347,7 +341,7 @@ export LIBTCC1
 	$(MAKE) -C tests $@
 
 clean:
-	rm -vf $(PROGS) tcc_p$(EXESUF) tcc.pod *~ *.o *.a *.so* *.out *.exe libtcc_test$(EXESUF) $(TCCEXS)
+	rm -vf $(PROGS) tcc_p$(EXESUF) tcc.pod *~ *.o *.a *.so* *.out *.exe libtcc_test$(EXESUF)
 	$(MAKE) -C tests $@
 ifneq ($(LIBTCC1),)
 	$(MAKE) -C lib $@
diff --git a/README b/README
index 0ead1ee..bfaab39 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -65,8 +65,7 @@ operations given a list of numbers (benchmark).
 ex3.c: compute fibonacci numbers (benchmark).
 
 ex4.c: more complicated: X11 program. Very complicated test in fact
-because standard headers are being used ! As for ex1.c, can also be launched
-directly as a script: './ex4.c'.
+because standard headers are being used !
 
 ex5.c: 'hello world' with standard glibc headers.
 
diff --git a/examples/ex1.c.template b/examples/ex1.c
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
similarity index 74%
rename from examples/ex1.c.template
rename to examples/ex1.c
index 8744f58..28139f9
--- a/examples/ex1.c.template
+++ b/examples/ex1.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#! @BINDIR@/tcc -run
+#! /usr/local/bin/tcc -run
 #include <tcclib.h>
 
 int main()
diff --git a/examples/ex4.c.template b/examples/ex4.c
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
similarity index 92%
rename from examples/ex4.c.template
rename to examples/ex4.c
index 81aa00d..b33b033
--- a/examples/ex4.c.template
+++ b/examples/ex4.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#! @BINDIR@/tcc -run -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11
+#!./tcc -run -L/usr/X11R6/lib -lX11
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <X11/Xlib.h>