diff --git a/BUILD b/BUILD
index 0189fd9b51bbf..0a279412a991d 100644
--- a/BUILD
+++ b/BUILD
@@ -639,6 +639,7 @@ java_library(
     visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
     deps = [
         "protobuf_java",
+        "//external:error_prone_annotations",
         "//external:gson",
         "//external:guava",
     ],
diff --git a/WORKSPACE b/WORKSPACE
index 2678ed45b07d4..36876800242dd 100644
--- a/WORKSPACE
+++ b/WORKSPACE
@@ -65,3 +65,13 @@ bind(
     name = "gson",
     actual = "@gson_maven//jar",
 )
+
+maven_jar(
+    name = "error_prone_annotations_maven",
+    artifact = "com.google.errorprone:error_prone_annotations:2.3.2",
+)
+
+bind(
+    name = "error_prone_annotations",
+    actual = "@error_prone_annotations_maven//jar",
+)