diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 076707d31..57b6ab4ca 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -2276,7 +2276,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "selinux",
  "uucore",
  "walkdir",
- "winapi",
  "xattr",
 ]
 
diff --git a/src/uu/cp/Cargo.toml b/src/uu/cp/Cargo.toml
index 2c71b725f..15ce7c8f5 100644
--- a/src/uu/cp/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/uu/cp/Cargo.toml
@@ -27,9 +27,6 @@ selinux = { version="0.3", optional=true }
 uucore = { version=">=0.0.16", package="uucore", path="../../uucore", features=["entries", "fs", "perms", "mode"] }
 walkdir = "2.2"
 
-[target.'cfg(target_os = "windows")'.dependencies]
-winapi = { version="0.3", features=["fileapi"] }
-
 [target.'cfg(unix)'.dependencies]
 xattr="0.2.3"
 exacl= { version = "0.9.0", optional=true }