diff --git a/cmake/external_libs/protobuf.cmake b/cmake/external_libs/protobuf.cmake
index 8be594c7..fb68a3c6 100644
--- a/cmake/external_libs/protobuf.cmake
+++ b/cmake/external_libs/protobuf.cmake
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 if (NOT TARGET protobuf::protobuf)
-set(protobuf_USE_STATIC_LIBS ON)
+set(protobuf_USE_STATIC_LIBS OFF)
 set(protobuf_CXXFLAGS "-Wno-maybe-uninitialized -Wno-unused-parameter -fPIC -fstack-protector-all -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -O2")
 set(protobuf_LDFLAGS "-Wl,-z,relro,-z,now,-z,noexecstack")
 set(_ge_tmp_CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS ${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS})
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ graphengine_add_pkg(protobuf
         URL ${REQ_URL}
         MD5 ${MD5}
         CMAKE_PATH ../cmake/
-        CMAKE_OPTION -Dprotobuf_BUILD_TESTS=OFF -Dprotobuf_BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF)
+        CMAKE_OPTION -Dprotobuf_BUILD_TESTS=OFF -Dprotobuf_BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON)
 set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS ${_ge_tmp_CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS})
 endif()
 add_library(graphengine::protobuf ALIAS protobuf::protobuf)