diff --git a/.github/workflows/cmake-windows.yml b/.github/workflows/cmake-windows.yml
index 0e9cadd..de11054 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/cmake-windows.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/cmake-windows.yml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ jobs:
         uses: lukka/run-vcpkg@v7
         id: runvcpkg
         with:
-            vcpkgArguments: 'zlib discord-rpc openssl'
+            vcpkgArguments: 'zlib discord-rpc rapidjson openssl'
             vcpkgDirectory: '${{ runner.workspace }}/b/vcpkg'
             vcpkgGitCommitId: '75522bb1f2e7d863078bcd06322348f053a9e33f'
             vcpkgTriplet: 'x64-windows-static'
diff --git a/.github/workflows/release-build.yml b/.github/workflows/release-build.yml
index 68fa249..674f390 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/release-build.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/release-build.yml
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ jobs:
         uses: lukka/run-vcpkg@main
         id: runvcpkg
         with:
-            vcpkgArguments: 'zlib discord-rpc openssl'
+            vcpkgArguments: 'zlib discord-rpc rapidjson openssl'
             vcpkgDirectory: '${{ runner.workspace }}/b/vcpkg'
             vcpkgGitCommitId: '75522bb1f2e7d863078bcd06322348f053a9e33f'
             vcpkgTriplet: 'x64-windows-static'
diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 0c68433..49407e2 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
 [submodule "wxWidgets"]
 	path = include/wxWidgets
 	url = https://github.com/wxWidgets/wxWidgets.git
-[submodule "rapidjson"]
-	path = include/rapidjson
-	url = https://github.com/Tencent/rapidjson.git
 [submodule "include/cpp-httplib"]
 	path = include/cpp-httplib
 	url = https://github.com/yhirose/cpp-httplib.git
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index b6c6881..324c55b 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -18,12 +18,10 @@ endif(WIN32)
 set(wxUSE_STL ON)
 set(BUILD_EXAMPLES OFF)
 set(wxBUILD_SHARED OFF)
-set(build_static_lib ON)
 set(wxBUILD_MSVC_MULTIPROC ON)
 set(wxBUILD_USE_STATIC_RUNTIME ON)
 
 add_subdirectory(include/wxWidgets)
-add_subdirectory(include/rapidjson)
 add_subdirectory(include/cpp-httplib)
 add_subdirectory(include/tomlplusplus)
 
@@ -54,5 +52,3 @@ else(WIN32) #MINGW
 endif(WIN32)
 add_definitions(-DELPP_NO_DEFAULT_LOG_FILE)
 target_include_directories(${PROJECT_NAME} PRIVATE "include")
-target_include_directories(${PROJECT_NAME} PRIVATE "include/rapidjson/include")
-target_include_directories(${PROJECT_NAME} PRIVATE "include/discord-rpc/include")
diff --git a/include/rapidjson b/include/rapidjson
deleted file mode 160000
index fd3dc29..0000000
--- a/include/rapidjson
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Subproject commit fd3dc29a5c2852df569e1ea81dbde2c412ac5051