diff --git a/xla/hlo/experimental/auto_sharding/BUILD b/xla/hlo/experimental/auto_sharding/BUILD
index 60ee0dd24e6ef..c067db130d9f4 100644
--- a/xla/hlo/experimental/auto_sharding/BUILD
+++ b/xla/hlo/experimental/auto_sharding/BUILD
@@ -307,6 +307,7 @@ xla_cc_binary(
         "//xla/hlo/ir:hlo",
         "//xla/service:hlo_parser",
         "//xla/tools:hlo_module_loader",
+        "@com_google_absl//absl/status",
         "@tsl//tsl/platform:platform_port",
     ],
 )