diff --git a/Meta/CMake/wasm_spec_tests.cmake b/Meta/CMake/wasm_spec_tests.cmake
index 0f75f2376a..b82e6b94c1 100644
--- a/Meta/CMake/wasm_spec_tests.cmake
+++ b/Meta/CMake/wasm_spec_tests.cmake
@@ -25,12 +25,8 @@ if(INCLUDE_WASM_SPEC_TESTS)
 
     if(EXISTS ${WASM_SPEC_TEST_GZ_PATH} AND NOT EXISTS ${WASM_SPEC_TEST_PATH}/const_0.wasm)
         message(STATUS "Extracting the WebAssembly testsuite from ${WASM_SPEC_TEST_GZ_PATH}...")
+        extract_tar_path("${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}" "${WASM_SPEC_TEST_GZ_PATH}" "testsuite-main/*.wast" "${WASM_SPEC_TEST_PATH}")
         file(MAKE_DIRECTORY ${WASM_SPEC_TEST_PATH})
-        if (CMAKE_VERSION VERSION_LESS 3.18.0)
-            execute_process(COMMAND "${TAR_TOOL}" -xzf ${WASM_SPEC_TEST_GZ_PATH})
-        else()
-            file(ARCHIVE_EXTRACT INPUT ${WASM_SPEC_TEST_GZ_PATH} )
-        endif()
         file(GLOB WASM_TESTS "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/testsuite-main/*.wast")
         foreach(PATH ${WASM_TESTS})
             get_filename_component(NAME ${PATH} NAME_WLE)