--- ./third_party/electron_node/BUILD.gn.orig
+++ ./third_party/electron_node/BUILD.gn
@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@
   node_release_urlbase = ""
 
   # Allows downstream packagers (eg. Linux distributions) to build Electron against system shared libraries.
+  use_system_base64 = false
   use_system_cares = false
   use_system_nghttp2 = false
   use_system_llhttp = false
@@ -47,6 +48,11 @@
 
 if (is_linux) {
  import("//build/config/linux/pkg_config.gni")
+ if (use_system_base64) {
+  pkg_config("base64") {
+    packages = [ "base64" ]
+  }
+ }
  if (use_system_cares) {
   pkg_config("cares") {
     packages = [ "libcares" ]
@@ -208,7 +214,6 @@
     ":node_js2c",
     "deps/googletest:gtest",
     "deps/ada",
-    "deps/base64",
     "deps/simdutf",
     "deps/uvwasi",
     "//third_party/zlib",
@@ -216,6 +221,11 @@
     "//third_party/brotli:enc",
     "//v8:v8_libplatform",
   ]
+  if (use_system_base64) {
+    configs += [ ":base64" ]
+  } else {
+    deps += [ "deps/base64" ]
+  }
   if (use_system_cares) {
     configs += [ ":cares" ]
   } else {
--- ./electron/script/generate-config-gypi.py.orig
+++ ./electron/script/generate-config-gypi.py
@@ -62,6 +62,11 @@
   # Used by certain versions of node-gyp.
   v['build_v8_with_gn'] = 'false'
 
+  with open(os.path.join(NODE_DIR, 'use_system.txt')) as f:
+    for dep in f.read().strip().split(' '):
+      if v.get(f'node_shared_{dep}') is not None:
+        v[f'node_shared_{dep}'] = 'true'
+
   with open(target_file, 'w+') as f:
     f.write(pprint.pformat(config, indent=2))