diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index f7824b1066473104213a00011242a4f47deab246..36b6168076d04acf9e7f3e50815fcd11e6668557 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -54,6 +54,7 @@ option(WITH_C_API       "Compile PaddlePaddle with C-API(Prediction)"   OFF)
 option(WITH_GOLANG      "Compile PaddlePaddle with GOLANG"              OFF)
 option(GLIDE_INSTALL    "Download and install go dependencies "         ON)
 option(USE_NNPACK       "Compile PaddlePaddle with NNPACK library"      OFF)
+option(WITH_DISTRIBUTE  "Compile with grpc distributed support"         OFF)
 option(USE_EIGEN_FOR_BLAS   "Use matrix multiplication in Eigen"        OFF)
 
 # CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE
diff --git a/cmake/external/cares.cmake b/cmake/external/cares.cmake
index e05111ee18efc906e39bcb56fb1be3b3c3dff5d6..ac456933bd2260b2bbde2de78c486a5c0a1f5a96 100644
--- a/cmake/external/cares.cmake
+++ b/cmake/external/cares.cmake
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 #
 
-IF(MOBILE_INFERENCE)
+IF(MOBILE_INFERENCE OR NOT WITH_DISTRIBUTE)
     return()
 ENDIF()
 
diff --git a/cmake/external/grpc.cmake b/cmake/external/grpc.cmake
index 86122aec8c77f34756a37121582b92489d749d7f..abee6698e30b7e76ca42825ed225876bf2ba5ec0 100644
--- a/cmake/external/grpc.cmake
+++ b/cmake/external/grpc.cmake
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
 # limitations under the License.
 #
 
-IF(MOBILE_INFERENCE)
+IF(MOBILE_INFERENCE OR NOT WITH_DISTRIBUTE)
     return()
 ENDIF()
 
diff --git a/paddle/operators/CMakeLists.txt b/paddle/operators/CMakeLists.txt
index 8187af9374292622d5aae3ad510f80449c9e1f47..38b89b9eb108d73c3374360a81c6ed28502bfdc5 100644
--- a/paddle/operators/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/paddle/operators/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -212,6 +212,7 @@ set(DEPS_OPS
     send_op
     recv_op)
 
+if(WITH_DISTRIBUTE)
 add_subdirectory(detail)
 op_library(send_op SRCS send_op.cc DEPS sendrecvop_grpc grpc++_unsecure grpc_unsecure gpr cares zlib_target protobuf)
 set_source_files_properties(
@@ -225,6 +226,9 @@ set_source_files_properties(
     PROPERTIES
     COMPILE_FLAGS  "-Wno-non-virtual-dtor -Wno-error=non-virtual-dtor -Wno-error=delete-non-virtual-dtor")
 
+cc_test(test_send_recv SRCS send_recv_op_test.cc DEPS send_op recv_op sum_op executor)
+endif()
+
 op_library(cond_op SRCS cond_op.cc DEPS framework_proto tensor operator net_op)
 op_library(cross_entropy_op DEPS cross_entropy)
 op_library(softmax_with_cross_entropy_op DEPS cross_entropy softmax)
@@ -275,4 +279,3 @@ if(WITH_GPU)
   cc_test(nccl_op_test SRCS nccl_op_test.cu.cc DEPS nccl_op gpu_info device_context)
 endif()
 cc_test(save_load_op_test SRCS save_load_op_test.cc DEPS save_op load_op)
-cc_test(test_send_recv SRCS send_recv_op_test.cc DEPS send_op recv_op sum_op executor)
diff --git a/paddle/scripts/docker/build.sh b/paddle/scripts/docker/build.sh
index 502637c881208e53dd832a9759b3873ef1988395..fbd0b6b07876451ad973eb98bbff822a2a58db43 100644
--- a/paddle/scripts/docker/build.sh
+++ b/paddle/scripts/docker/build.sh
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ function cmake_gen() {
         ${PYTHON_FLAGS}
         -DWITH_DOC=OFF
         -DWITH_GPU=${WITH_GPU:-OFF}
+        -DWITH_DISTRIBUTE=${WITH_DISTRIBUTE:-OFF}
         -DWITH_MKL=${WITH_MKL:-ON}
         -DWITH_AVX=${WITH_AVX:-OFF}
         -DWITH_GOLANG=${WITH_GOLANG:-ON}
@@ -57,6 +58,7 @@ EOF
         ${PYTHON_FLAGS} \
         -DWITH_DOC=OFF \
         -DWITH_GPU=${WITH_GPU:-OFF} \
+        -DWITH_DISTRIBUTE=${WITH_DISTRIBUTE:-OFF} \
         -DWITH_MKL=${WITH_MKL:-ON} \
         -DWITH_AVX=${WITH_AVX:-OFF} \
         -DWITH_GOLANG=${WITH_GOLANG:-ON} \