diff --git a/utils/BUILD.gn b/utils/BUILD.gn
index af7c74669168056a68733ed8aed26c66a52258e0..626a105bfda983df839254dba8b1e6c1db381af5 100644
--- a/utils/BUILD.gn
+++ b/utils/BUILD.gn
@@ -61,12 +61,11 @@ ohos_shared_library("libdinput_utils") {
     "hilog:libhilog",
     "hisysevent:libhisysevent",
     "ipc:ipc_core",
+    "json:nlohmann_json_static",
     "openssl:libcrypto_shared",
     "samgr:samgr_proxy",
   ]
 
-  public_external_deps = [ "json:nlohmann_json_static" ]
-
   subsystem_name = "distributedhardware"
 
   part_name = "distributed_input"