diff --git a/api-test/Cargo.toml b/api-test/Cargo.toml
index e6c975d5..112d7c63 100644
--- a/api-test/Cargo.toml
+++ b/api-test/Cargo.toml
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ futures-preview = "0.3.0-alpha"
 http = "0.1"
 hyper = { version = "0.13.0-alpha.1" }
 lazy_static = "1.3"
-proxmox = { path = "../proxmox" }
+proxmox = { path = "../proxmox", features = [ "api-macro" ] }
 regex = "1.1"
 serde = "1.0"
 serde_json = "1.0"
diff --git a/proxmox/Cargo.toml b/proxmox/Cargo.toml
index f907bd64..d3c2c8cc 100644
--- a/proxmox/Cargo.toml
+++ b/proxmox/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,10 +9,11 @@ authors = [
 
 [dependencies]
 proxmox-api = { path = "../proxmox-api" }
-proxmox-api-macro = { path = "../proxmox-api-macro" }
+proxmox-api-macro = { path = "../proxmox-api-macro", optional = true }
 proxmox-sys = { path = "../proxmox-sys" }
 proxmox-tools = { path = "../proxmox-tools" }
 
 [features]
 default = []
 valgrind = ["proxmox-tools/valgrind"]
+api-macro = ["proxmox-api-macro"]
diff --git a/proxmox/src/lib.rs b/proxmox/src/lib.rs
index 67005db2..91d55321 100644
--- a/proxmox/src/lib.rs
+++ b/proxmox/src/lib.rs
@@ -5,5 +5,6 @@ pub use proxmox_tools as tools;
 // exposed via `proxmox::api`.
 pub mod api {
     pub use proxmox_api::*;
+    #[cfg(feature = "api-macro")]
     pub use proxmox_api_macro::{api, router};
 }