diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 9291a5a8..9a0b1ffd 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -3,10 +3,6 @@ name = "wasm-bindgen"
 version = "0.2.39"
 authors = ["The wasm-bindgen Developers"]
 license = "MIT/Apache-2.0"
-# Because only a single `wasm_bindgen` version can be used in a dependency
-# graph, pretend we link a native library so that `cargo` will provide better
-# error messages than the esoteric linker errors we would otherwise trigger.
-links = "wasm_bindgen"
 readme = "README.md"
 categories = ["wasm"]
 repository = "https://github.com/rustwasm/wasm-bindgen"
diff --git a/crates/shared/Cargo.toml b/crates/shared/Cargo.toml
index 93b3fc54..5b096217 100644
--- a/crates/shared/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/shared/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,3 +10,8 @@ description = """
 Shared support between wasm-bindgen and wasm-bindgen cli, an internal
 dependency.
 """
+
+# Because only a single `wasm_bindgen` version can be used in a dependency
+# graph, pretend we link a native library so that `cargo` will provide better
+# error messages than the esoteric linker errors we would otherwise trigger.
+links = "wasm_bindgen"