diff --git a/cmake/external/onnxruntime_external_deps.cmake b/cmake/external/onnxruntime_external_deps.cmake
index ebf20ab21b..0c152de63d 100644
--- a/cmake/external/onnxruntime_external_deps.cmake
+++ b/cmake/external/onnxruntime_external_deps.cmake
@@ -31,18 +31,17 @@ message(STATUS "Loading Dependencies ...")
 include(FetchContent)
 
 # ABSL should be included before protobuf because protobuf may use absl
-include(external/abseil-cpp.cmake)
 
 set(RE2_BUILD_TESTING OFF CACHE BOOL "" FORCE)
 
-onnxruntime_fetchcontent_declare(
-    re2
-    URL ${DEP_URL_re2}
-    URL_HASH SHA1=${DEP_SHA1_re2}
-    EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL
-    FIND_PACKAGE_ARGS NAMES re2
-)
-onnxruntime_fetchcontent_makeavailable(re2)
+find_package(absl REQUIRED)
+set(ABSEIL_LIBS absl::inlined_vector absl::flat_hash_set
+    absl::flat_hash_map absl::node_hash_set absl::node_hash_map absl::base absl::throw_delegate absl::raw_hash_set
+    absl::hash absl::city absl::low_level_hash absl::raw_logging_internal)
+find_package(Protobuf REQUIRED)
+find_package(re2 REQUIRED)
+find_package(nlohmann_json REQUIRED)
+
 
 if (onnxruntime_BUILD_UNIT_TESTS)
   # WebAssembly threading support in Node.js is still an experimental feature and
@@ -70,7 +69,7 @@ if (onnxruntime_BUILD_UNIT_TESTS)
     EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL
     FIND_PACKAGE_ARGS 1.14.0...<2.0.0 NAMES GTest
   )
-  FetchContent_MakeAvailable(googletest)
+  find_package(GTest REQUIRED)
 endif()
 
 if (onnxruntime_BUILD_BENCHMARKS)
@@ -227,7 +226,6 @@ if (onnxruntime_DISABLE_RTTI)
   set(protobuf_DISABLE_RTTI ON CACHE BOOL "Remove runtime type information in the binaries" FORCE)
 endif()
 
-include(protobuf_function)
 #protobuf end
 
 onnxruntime_fetchcontent_makeavailable(Protobuf)
@@ -321,7 +319,6 @@ onnxruntime_fetchcontent_declare(
     EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL
     FIND_PACKAGE_ARGS 3.10 NAMES nlohmann_json
 )
-onnxruntime_fetchcontent_makeavailable(nlohmann_json)
 
 #TODO: include clog first
 if (onnxruntime_ENABLE_CPUINFO)
diff --git a/cmake/onnxruntime_unittests.cmake b/cmake/onnxruntime_unittests.cmake
index 0916aeb3dd..01a5475990 100644
--- a/cmake/onnxruntime_unittests.cmake
+++ b/cmake/onnxruntime_unittests.cmake
@@ -1021,6 +1021,7 @@ if (MSVC)
 endif()
 target_include_directories(onnx_test_data_proto PRIVATE ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR})
 set_target_properties(onnx_test_data_proto PROPERTIES FOLDER "ONNXRuntimeTest")
+include(protobuf_function)
 if(NOT DEFINED onnx_SOURCE_DIR)
   find_path(onnx_SOURCE_DIR NAMES "onnx/onnx-ml.proto3" "onnx/onnx-ml.proto" REQUIRED)
 endif()