diff --git a/cranelift/Cargo.toml b/cranelift/Cargo.toml
index 8ccacc3e8a..667104bcd4 100644
--- a/cranelift/Cargo.toml
+++ b/cranelift/Cargo.toml
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ indicatif = "0.12.0"
 walkdir = "2.2"
 
 [features]
-default = ["disas", "wasm", "cranelift-codegen/all-arch"]
+default = ["disas", "wasm", "cranelift-codegen/all-arch", "basic-blocks"]
 disas = ["capstone"]
 wasm = ["wabt", "cranelift-wasm"]
 basic-blocks = ["cranelift-codegen/basic-blocks", "cranelift-frontend/basic-blocks",
diff --git a/cranelift/codegen/Cargo.toml b/cranelift/codegen/Cargo.toml
index ccda65d612..fc7a9023a8 100644
--- a/cranelift/codegen/Cargo.toml
+++ b/cranelift/codegen/Cargo.toml
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ smallvec = { version = "0.6.10" }
 cranelift-codegen-meta = { path = "meta", version = "0.46.1" }
 
 [features]
-default = ["std"]
+default = ["std", "basic-blocks"]
 
 # The "std" feature enables use of libstd. The "core" feature enables use
 # of some minimal std-like replacement libraries. At least one of these two
diff --git a/cranelift/frontend/Cargo.toml b/cranelift/frontend/Cargo.toml
index 950e3d2623..02a61441af 100644
--- a/cranelift/frontend/Cargo.toml
+++ b/cranelift/frontend/Cargo.toml
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ hashbrown = { version = "0.6", optional = true }
 smallvec = { version = "0.6.10" }
 
 [features]
-default = ["std"]
+default = ["std", "basic-blocks"]
 std = ["cranelift-codegen/std"]
 core = ["hashbrown", "cranelift-codegen/core"]
 
diff --git a/cranelift/wasm/Cargo.toml b/cranelift/wasm/Cargo.toml
index df97b7260a..80feba60c6 100644
--- a/cranelift/wasm/Cargo.toml
+++ b/cranelift/wasm/Cargo.toml
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ wabt = "0.9.1"
 target-lexicon = "0.8.1"
 
 [features]
-default = ["std"]
+default = ["std", "basic-blocks"]
 std = ["cranelift-codegen/std", "cranelift-frontend/std", "wasmparser/std"]
 core = ["hashbrown", "cranelift-codegen/core", "cranelift-frontend/core", "wasmparser/core"]
 enable-serde = ["serde"]