# https://github.com/protocolbuffers/protobuf/pull/6720
diff --git a/third_party/BUILD b/third_party/BUILD
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b66101a39a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/third_party/BUILD
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+exports_files(["six.BUILD", "zlib.BUILD"])

# patching for zlib binding
diff --git a/BUILD b/BUILD
index efc3d8e7f..746ad4851 100644
--- a/BUILD
+++ b/BUILD
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ config_setting(
 # ZLIB configuration
 ################################################################################

-ZLIB_DEPS = ["@zlib//:zlib"]
+ZLIB_DEPS = ["//external:zlib"]

 ################################################################################
 # Protobuf Runtime Library