App which uses protobuf 2.6 doesn't run on Ubuntu 17.10

I have a Qt app which statically links against protobuf 2.6.

When I try to run it on Ubuntu 17.10, I get an exception on startup.

[libprotobuf FATAL google/protobuf/stubs/common.cc:61] This program requires 
version 3.0.0 of the Protocol Buffer runtime library, but the installed version
 is 2.6.1.  

Please update your library.  

If you compiled the program yourself, make sure that your headers are from the 
same version of Protocol Buffers as your link-time library.  

(Version verification failed in "/build/mir-y44crS/mir-0.28.0+17.10.20171011.1/
 obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/src/protobuf/mir_protobuf.pb.cc".)

Looking at a stack trace, I see that the source of the exception is a protobuf file called mir_protobuf.pb.cc in libmirprotobuf.so.3

#8  google::protobuf::internal::VerifyVersion (headerVersion=3000000, minLibraryVersion=<optimized out>, filename=0x7f56e740fb00 "/build/mir-y44crS/mir-0.28.0+17.10.20171011.1/obj-x86_64-linux-gnu/src/protobuf/mir_protobuf.pb.cc") at google/protobuf/stubs/common.cc:61
#9  0x00007f56e73dd2bb in mir::protobuf::protobuf_AddDesc_mir_5fprotobuf_2eproto() () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmirprotobuf.so.3
#10 0x00007f56e73d0109 in ?? () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libmirprotobuf.so.3

Deeper in the stack trace I see this is being called by Qt, via libqgtk3.so

#16 0x00007f56f9cde0d9 in _dl_open (file=0x55c572496638 "/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/platformthemes/libqgtk3.so", mode=-2147479551, caller_dlopen=0x7f56f840571c, nsid=-2, argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>, env=0x7ffe60c11c38) at dl-open.c:660
...
#23 0x00007f56f83ef068 in QFactoryLoader::instance(int) const () from /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5Core.so.5

protobuf 3 is installed by default on Ubuntu 17.10

libmirprotobuf3/artful,now 0.28.0+17.10.20171011.1-0ubuntu1 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libprotobuf-dev/artful,now 3.0.0-9ubuntu5 amd64 [installed]
libprotobuf-lite10/artful,now 3.0.0-9ubuntu5 amd64 [installed,automatic]
libprotobuf10/artful,now 3.0.0-9ubuntu5 amd64 [installed,automatic]

My app is statically linking against protobuf 2.6, but it seems this is interfering with libmirprotobuf.so.3.

Is it possible to run my app on Ubuntu 17.10?