diff --git a/components/SConscript b/components/SConscript
index 517e80b11f8b9730b8fb32cfdc346884589f1397..580b7e19e11226bbb97f922f782e24b590cdc498 100644
--- a/components/SConscript
+++ b/components/SConscript
@@ -1,11 +1,14 @@
 # for module compiling
 import os
 Import('RTT_ROOT')
+Import('remove_components')
 
 objs = []
 list = os.listdir(os.path.join(RTT_ROOT, 'components'))
 
 for d in list:
+    if d in remove_components:
+        continue
     path = os.path.join(RTT_ROOT, 'components', d)
     if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(path, 'SConscript')):
         objs = objs + SConscript(os.path.join(d, 'SConscript'))
diff --git a/tools/building.py b/tools/building.py
index 9f54a6ceacd51ad84d140522674ea2dde54762a3..c520f402c36b38fc0cc1866b19ebcabcef4ee196 100644
--- a/tools/building.py
+++ b/tools/building.py
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ def GetVersion():
 
     return '0.%d.%d' % (version, subversion)
 
-def PrepareBuilding(env, root_directory, has_libcpu=False):
+def PrepareBuilding(env, root_directory, has_libcpu=False, remove_components = []):
     import SCons.cpp
     import rtconfig
 
@@ -122,8 +122,12 @@ def PrepareBuilding(env, root_directory, has_libcpu=False):
     # include libcpu
     if not has_libcpu:
         objs.append(SConscript(Rtt_Root + '/libcpu/SConscript', variant_dir='build/libcpu', duplicate=0))
+
     # include components
-    objs.append(SConscript(Rtt_Root + '/components/SConscript', variant_dir='build/components', duplicate=0))
+    objs.append(SConscript(Rtt_Root + '/components/SConscript',
+                           variant_dir='build/components',
+                           duplicate=0,
+                           exports='remove_components'))
 
     return objs