diff --git a/build.sh b/build.sh
index efe77065699f36d160872c777c167506f92c632e..ae9d55ba69f4d1bbedbf5cf5c4c915dd14a7c159 100755
--- a/build.sh
+++ b/build.sh
@@ -245,9 +245,6 @@ build_generic()
 	FREETYPE2_INCLUDE_DIR="$ROOT/install/include"
 	FREETYPE2_LIBRARIES="$ROOT/install/lib/libfreetype.a"
 	patch CMakeLists.txt < $ROOT/patches/CMakeLists.txt.oglft.patch >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 || failure
-	# patch: build static lib instead of shared
-	cd $ROOT/3rdparty/oglft/liboglft || failure
-	patch CMakeLists.txt < $ROOT/patches/CMakeLists.txt.liboglft.patch >> $LOGFILE 2>&1 || failure
 	echo "Building OGLFT..." | tee -a $LOGFILE
 	cd $ROOT/build/oglft || failure
 	# TODO: do we wanna create universal binaries on mac? If so, add -DCMAKE_OSX_ARCHITECTURES=ppc;i386
diff --git a/patches/CMakeLists.txt.liboglft.patch b/patches/CMakeLists.txt.liboglft.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 57602189c8b487314373656fe7c7da9832c3c38d..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/patches/CMakeLists.txt.liboglft.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
---- CMakeLists.txt
-+++ CMakeLists.txt	2008-05-19 11:42:02.000000000 +0200
-@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
-   add_definitions( -DOGLFT_BUILD )
- endif( WIN32 )
- 
--add_library( oglft SHARED ${sources} )
-+add_library( oglft STATIC ${sources} )
- target_link_libraries(
-   oglft
-   ${FREETYPE2_LIBRARIES}