--- a/setup.py	2025-10-20 00:01:06.755586101 -0400
+++ b/setup.py	2025-10-20 00:07:55.019945759 -0400
@@ -16,63 +16,6 @@
     return list(map(lambda f: f"{prefix}/{f}", files))
 
 
-ABSL_SRC = prefix_path(
-    "sentencepiece/third_party/absl", ["flags/flag.cc", "strings/string_view.cc"]
-)
-
-PROTOBUF_LIGHT_SRC = prefix_path(
-    "sentencepiece/third_party/protobuf-lite",
-    [
-        "arena.cc",
-        "arenastring.cc",
-        "bytestream.cc",
-        "coded_stream.cc",
-        "common.cc",
-        "extension_set.cc",
-        "generated_enum_util.cc",
-        "generated_message_table_driven_lite.cc",
-        "generated_message_util.cc",
-        "implicit_weak_message.cc",
-        "int128.cc",
-        "io_win32.cc",
-        "message_lite.cc",
-        "parse_context.cc",
-        "repeated_field.cc",
-        "status.cc",
-        "statusor.cc",
-        "stringpiece.cc",
-        "stringprintf.cc",
-        "structurally_valid.cc",
-        "strutil.cc",
-        "time.cc",
-        "wire_format_lite.cc",
-        "zero_copy_stream.cc",
-        "zero_copy_stream_impl.cc",
-        "zero_copy_stream_impl_lite.cc",
-    ],
-)
-
-SENTENCEPIECE_PROTOBUF_SRC = prefix_path(
-    "sentencepiece/src/builtin_pb", ["sentencepiece.pb.cc", "sentencepiece_model.pb.cc"]
-)
-
-SENTENCEPIECE_SRC = prefix_path(
-    "sentencepiece/src",
-    [
-        "bpe_model.cc",
-        "char_model.cc",
-        "error.cc",
-        "filesystem.cc",
-        "model_factory.cc",
-        "model_interface.cc",
-        "normalizer.cc",
-        "sentencepiece_processor.cc",
-        "unigram_model.cc",
-        "util.cc",
-        "word_model.cc",
-    ],
-)
-
 PACKAGES = find_packages()
 MOD_NAMES = [
     "curated_tokenizers.sp",
@@ -87,8 +30,8 @@
         "/wd4514",
     ],
     "other": [
-        "--std=c++14",
-        "-Wno-sign-compare" "-Wno-strict-prototypes",
+        "--std=c++17",
+        "-Wno-sign-compare", "-Wno-strict-prototypes",
         "-Wno-unused-function",
         "-D_USE_INTERNAL_STRING_VIEW",
         "-pthread",
@@ -142,19 +85,9 @@
     ext_modules = [
         Extension(
             "curated_tokenizers._spp",
-            ["curated_tokenizers/_spp.pyx"]
-            + ABSL_SRC
-            + PROTOBUF_LIGHT_SRC
-            + SENTENCEPIECE_SRC
-            + SENTENCEPIECE_PROTOBUF_SRC,
-            include_dirs=[
-                "curated_tokenizers",
-                "sentencepiece",
-                "sentencepiece/src",
-                "sentencepiece/src/builtin_pb",
-                "sentencepiece/third_party/protobuf-lite",
-            ],
+            ["curated_tokenizers/_spp.pyx"],
             language="c++",
+            libraries=["sentencepiece", "protobuf", "absl_flags_commandlineflag", "absl_flags_config", "absl_flags_internal", "absl_flags_reflection", "absl_strings",],
         ),
         Extension(
             "curated_tokenizers._wordpiece",