diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 260bc4ed8797..536dd2485fee 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -82,7 +82,8 @@ members = [
 exclude = ['crates/wasi-common/WASI/tools/witx-cli']
 
 [features]
-default = ["jitdump", "wasmtime/wat", "wasmtime/parallel-compilation", "wasi-nn"]
+default = ["jitdump", "wasmtime/wat", "parallel-compilation", "wasi-nn"]
+parallel-compilation = ["wasmtime/parallel-compilation"]
 lightbeam = ["wasmtime/lightbeam"]
 jitdump = ["wasmtime/jitdump"]
 vtune = ["wasmtime/vtune"]
diff --git a/src/obj.rs b/src/obj.rs
index 529d1c3c6d47..c4b92301dec7 100644
--- a/src/obj.rs
+++ b/src/obj.rs
@@ -69,6 +69,11 @@ pub fn compile_to_obj(
         .translate(wasm)
         .context("failed to translate module")?;
     assert_eq!(translation.len(), 1);
-    let compilation = compiler.compile(&mut translation[0], &types)?;
+    let compilation = compiler.compile(
+        &mut translation[0],
+        &types,
+        #[cfg(feature = "parallel-compilation")]
+        true,
+    )?;
     Ok(compilation.obj)
 }