diff --git a/utils/BUILD.gn b/utils/BUILD.gn
index d69d22381d6327fc8b0d65a834b6a2007fdcd3ff..085b405ae3ddb696a3f15e79041b4ff082bc8569 100644
--- a/utils/BUILD.gn
+++ b/utils/BUILD.gn
@@ -54,11 +54,12 @@ 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"