diff --git a/sw/apps/transformer/Makefile b/sw/apps/transformer/Makefile
index 091f77f4c5..3d71b761fa 100644
--- a/sw/apps/transformer/Makefile
+++ b/sw/apps/transformer/Makefile
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ DNN_DIR  := $(realpath $(MK_DIR)../../dnn/src/)
 BLAS_DIR := $(realpath $(MK_DIR)../../blas/)
 APP_DIR  := $(realpath $(MK_DIR)src)
 DATA_GEN_DIR := $(realpath $(MK_DIR)../../../target/snitch_cluster/sw/apps/dnn/)
+APP     ?= transformer
 
 $(info DATA_GEN_DIR: $(DATA_GEN_DIR))