diff --git a/mace/benchmark/BUILD b/mace/benchmark/BUILD
index 581696ca361698323801282bfcc8af518d861e31..bf9547e5adbf87d19636db0f39919c5e77944473 100644
--- a/mace/benchmark/BUILD
+++ b/mace/benchmark/BUILD
@@ -51,8 +51,16 @@ cc_binary(
         "-Wextra",
         "-Wno-missing-field-initializers",
     ] + if_android(["-DMACE_ENABLE_OPENCL"]),
-    linkopts = ["-lm", "-pie", "-fPIE"] + if_openmp_enabled(["-fopenmp"]),
-    linkstatic = 0,
+    linkopts = [
+        "-lm",
+    ] + if_openmp_enabled([
+        "-fopenmp"
+    ]) + if_android([
+        "-ldl",
+        "-pie",
+        "-llog",
+    ]),
+    linkstatic = 1,
     deps = [
         ":statistics",
         "//external:gflags_nothreads",
diff --git a/mace/examples/cli/BUILD b/mace/examples/cli/BUILD
index 1dc8a6d202dc657cdebc01920c2b216d7a5307a8..7767980a533b5291fd906e5b85f8f3f49f6e9910 100644
--- a/mace/examples/cli/BUILD
+++ b/mace/examples/cli/BUILD
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ cc_binary(
         "-pie",
         "-llog",
     ]),
-    linkstatic = 0,
+    linkstatic = 1,
     deps = [
         "//external:gflags_nothreads",
         "//mace/codegen:generated_mace_engine_factory",
diff --git a/mace/libmace/BUILD b/mace/libmace/BUILD
index ff51b4c8b733c1f91c78046705bec024ae549694..f96cce0556954b2da1cc6201dc7c3ecee299b6d4 100644
--- a/mace/libmace/BUILD
+++ b/mace/libmace/BUILD
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ cc_binary(
         "mace_version_script.lds",
     ],
     linkshared = 1,
-    linkstatic = 0,
+    linkstatic = 1,
     deps = [
         ":mace_version_script.lds",
         "//mace/libmace",
diff --git a/mace/tools/validation/BUILD b/mace/tools/validation/BUILD
index 5090349defa1fa5770861da3f884a36f959212cf..1dad55bca35ad6aaf299e833461819deaa844e59 100644
--- a/mace/tools/validation/BUILD
+++ b/mace/tools/validation/BUILD
@@ -29,8 +29,16 @@ cc_binary(
     ] + if_opencl_enabled([
         "-DMACE_ENABLE_OPENCL",
     ]),
-    linkopts = ["-lm", "-pie", "-fPIE"] + if_openmp_enabled(["-fopenmp"]),
-    linkstatic = 0,
+    linkopts = [
+        "-lm",
+    ] + if_openmp_enabled([
+        "-fopenmp"
+    ]) + if_android([
+        "-ldl",
+        "-pie",
+        "-llog",
+    ]),
+    linkstatic = 1,
     deps = [
         "//external:gflags_nothreads",
         "//mace/codegen:generated_mace_engine_factory",
diff --git a/tools/sh_commands.py b/tools/sh_commands.py
index b0adb2c5ae876d26bbfbd62c31cfc415ea92d6fd..1132daa29381946583ed4541fd8856b2655a231c 100644
--- a/tools/sh_commands.py
+++ b/tools/sh_commands.py
@@ -269,12 +269,6 @@ def find_asan_rt_library(abi, asan_rt_path=''):
     return "%s/%s" % (asan_rt_path, asan_rt_library_names(abi))
 
 
-def find_gnustl_shared_path(abi):
-    return \
-        "%s/sources/cxx-stl/gnu-libstdc++/4.9/libs/%s/libgnustl_shared.so" % \
-        (os.environ["ANDROID_NDK_HOME"], abi)
-
-
 ################################
 # bazel commands
 ################################
@@ -640,9 +634,12 @@ def tuning_run(abi,
     if model_graph_format == ModelFormat.file:
         mace_model_path = "%s/%s.pb" % (mace_model_dir, model_tag)
     if abi == "host":
+        libmace_dynamic_lib_path = \
+            os.path.dirname(libmace_dynamic_library_path)
         p = subprocess.Popen(
             [
                 "env",
+                "LD_LIBRARY_PATH=%s" % libmace_dynamic_lib_path,
                 "MACE_CPP_MIN_VLOG_LEVEL=%s" % vlog_level,
                 "MACE_RUNTIME_FAILURE_RATIO=%f" % runtime_failure_ratio,
                 "%s/%s" % (target_dir, target_name),
@@ -705,9 +702,6 @@ def tuning_run(abi,
         if link_dynamic:
             adb_push(libmace_dynamic_library_path, phone_data_dir,
                      serialno)
-            adb_push(find_gnustl_shared_path(abi),
-                     phone_data_dir,
-                     serialno)
 
         adb_push("%s/%s" % (target_dir, target_name), phone_data_dir,
                  serialno)
@@ -1018,9 +1012,6 @@ def benchmark_model(abi,
         if link_dynamic:
             adb_push(libmace_dynamic_library_path, phone_data_dir,
                      serialno)
-            adb_push(find_gnustl_shared_path(abi),
-                     phone_data_dir,
-                     serialno)
         adb_push("%s/%s" % (benchmark_binary_dir, benchmark_binary_name),
                  phone_data_dir,
                  serialno)