diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index e2ea4e3fb..26a32ebe2 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -27,6 +27,15 @@ jobs:
         run: rustup show
 
       - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+      - name: Check
+        run:
+          - cargo check --all-targets
+          - cargo check --all-targets --all-features
+          - cargo check --all-targets --no-default-features
+          - cargo check --all-targets --no-default-features --features serde
+          - cargo check --all-targets --no-default-features --features dir-entry-path
+
       - name: Build
         run: cargo build --release --verbose
 
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 906afc2cd..a17370346 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
 - Fixed macro hygiene for `path!`.
 - Fixed build error that would occur on Windows systems.
+- Fixed compilation without default features.
 - Added path iteration utilities ([#47][])
 
 ## Changed
diff --git a/src/fs.rs b/src/fs.rs
index 1081e84d9..8fa16d8d1 100644
--- a/src/fs.rs
+++ b/src/fs.rs
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ use core::{
 };
 use generic_array::typenum::marker_traits::Unsigned;
 use littlefs2_sys as ll;
-use serde::{Deserialize, Serialize};
 
 // so far, don't need `heapless-bytes`.
 pub type Bytes<SIZE> = generic_array::GenericArray<u8, SIZE>;
@@ -18,7 +17,6 @@ pub type Bytes<SIZE> = generic_array::GenericArray<u8, SIZE>;
 use crate::{
     driver,
     io::{self, Error, OpenSeekFrom, Result},
-    path,
     path::{Path, PathBuf},
 };
 
@@ -161,7 +159,8 @@ pub struct Filesystem<'a, Storage: driver::Storage> {
 }
 
 /// Regular file vs directory
-#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, Eq, Hash, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[derive(Clone, Copy, Debug, Eq, Hash, PartialEq)]
+#[cfg_attr(feature = "serde", derive(serde::Serialize, serde::Deserialize))]
 pub enum FileType {
     File,
     Dir,
@@ -180,7 +179,8 @@ impl FileType {
 }
 
 /// File type (regular vs directory) and size of a file.
-#[derive(Clone, Debug, Eq, PartialEq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, Eq, PartialEq)]
+#[cfg_attr(feature = "serde", derive(serde::Serialize, serde::Deserialize))]
 pub struct Metadata {
     file_type: FileType,
     size: usize,
@@ -225,6 +225,7 @@ impl From<ll::lfs_info> for Metadata {
     }
 }
 
+#[cfg(feature = "dir-entry-path")]
 struct RemoveDirAllProgress {
     files_removed: usize,
     skipped_any: bool,
@@ -320,6 +321,7 @@ impl<Storage: driver::Storage> Filesystem<'_, Storage> {
     }
 
     /// Returns number of deleted files + whether the directory was fully deleted or not
+    #[cfg(feature = "dir-entry-path")]
     fn remove_dir_all_where_inner<P>(
         &self,
         path: &Path,
@@ -328,6 +330,8 @@ impl<Storage: driver::Storage> Filesystem<'_, Storage> {
     where
         P: Fn(&DirEntry) -> bool,
     {
+        use crate::path;
+
         if !path.exists(self) {
             debug_now!("no such directory {}, early return", path);
             return Ok(RemoveDirAllProgress {
@@ -993,7 +997,8 @@ impl<S: driver::Storage> io::Write for File<'_, '_, S> {
     }
 }
 
-#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Eq, Serialize, Deserialize)]
+#[derive(Clone, Debug, PartialEq, Eq)]
+#[cfg_attr(feature = "serde", derive(serde::Serialize, serde::Deserialize))]
 pub struct DirEntry {
     file_name: PathBuf,
     metadata: Metadata,
diff --git a/src/path.rs b/src/path.rs
index 8cf1e55df..3cfc982ef 100644
--- a/src/path.rs
+++ b/src/path.rs
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ use core::{
     ffi::{c_char, CStr},
     fmt,
     iter::FusedIterator,
-    marker::PhantomData,
     ops, ptr, slice, str,
 };
 
@@ -553,6 +552,7 @@ impl ops::Deref for PathBuf {
     }
 }
 
+#[cfg(feature = "serde")]
 impl serde::Serialize for PathBuf {
     fn serialize<S>(&self, serializer: S) -> core::result::Result<S::Ok, S::Error>
     where
@@ -562,11 +562,14 @@ impl serde::Serialize for PathBuf {
     }
 }
 
+#[cfg(feature = "serde")]
 impl<'de> serde::Deserialize<'de> for PathBuf {
     fn deserialize<D>(deserializer: D) -> core::result::Result<Self, D::Error>
     where
         D: serde::Deserializer<'de>,
     {
+        use core::marker::PhantomData;
+
         struct ValueVisitor<'de>(PhantomData<&'de ()>);
 
         impl<'de> serde::de::Visitor<'de> for ValueVisitor<'de> {