diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ec8564c9..7029c375 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -74,12 +74,12 @@ When run, it produces:
 Point { x: 1, y: 2 }
 ```
 
-Using Serde with Stable Rust, syntex, and serde\_codegen
-========================================================
+Using Serde with Stable Rust and serde\_codegen
+===============================================
 
 Stable Rust is a little more complicated because it does not yet support
-compiler plugins. Instead we need to use the code generation library
-[syntex](https://github.com/serde-rs/syntex) for this:
+compiler plugins. Instead we need to use `serde_codegen` which is based on the
+code generation library [syntex](https://github.com/serde-rs/syntex):
 
 ```toml
 [package]
@@ -90,7 +90,6 @@ build = "build.rs"
 
 [build-dependencies]
 serde_codegen = "*"
-syntex = "*"
 
 [dependencies]
 serde = "*"
@@ -130,7 +129,6 @@ fn main() {
 `build.rs`
 
 ```rust,ignore
-extern crate syntex;
 extern crate serde_codegen;
 
 use std::env;
@@ -175,7 +173,6 @@ nightly = ["serde_macros"]
 
 [build-dependencies]
 serde_codegen = { version = "*", optional = true }
-syntex = "*"
 
 [dependencies]
 serde = "*"
@@ -188,7 +185,6 @@ serde_macros = { version = "*", optional = true }
 ```rust,ignore
 #[cfg(not(feature = "serde_macros"))]
 mod inner {
-    extern crate syntex;
     extern crate serde_codegen;
 
     use std::env;
diff --git a/examples/serde-syntex-example/Cargo.toml b/examples/serde-syntex-example/Cargo.toml
index 5cff3ade..c42124b7 100644
--- a/examples/serde-syntex-example/Cargo.toml
+++ b/examples/serde-syntex-example/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,7 +10,6 @@ nightly = ["serde_macros"]
 
 [build-dependencies]
 serde_codegen = { version = "^0.7.10", optional = true }
-syntex = "^0.33.0"
 
 [dependencies]
 serde = "^0.7.10"
diff --git a/examples/serde-syntex-example/build.rs b/examples/serde-syntex-example/build.rs
index b034d05f..48728b8b 100644
--- a/examples/serde-syntex-example/build.rs
+++ b/examples/serde-syntex-example/build.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 #[cfg(not(feature = "serde_macros"))]
 mod inner {
-    extern crate syntex;
     extern crate serde_codegen;
 
     use std::env;
diff --git a/serde_codegen/build.rs b/serde_codegen/build.rs
index 70c7cab0..3e15a0a5 100644
--- a/serde_codegen/build.rs
+++ b/serde_codegen/build.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 #[cfg(feature = "with-syntex")]
 mod inner {
-    extern crate syntex;
     extern crate quasi_codegen;
 
     use std::env;
diff --git a/serde_tests/Cargo.toml b/serde_tests/Cargo.toml
index 47792176..56d9c031 100644
--- a/serde_tests/Cargo.toml
+++ b/serde_tests/Cargo.toml
@@ -14,15 +14,12 @@ build = "build.rs"
 nightly-testing = ["clippy", "serde/nightly-testing", "serde_codegen/nightly-testing"]
 
 [build-dependencies]
-syntex = { version = "^0.35.0" }
-syntex_syntax = { version = "^0.35.0" }
 serde_codegen = { version = "*", path = "../serde_codegen", features = ["with-syntex"] }
 
 [dev-dependencies]
 fnv = "1.0"
 rustc-serialize = "^0.3.16"
 serde = { version = "*", path = "../serde" }
-syntex = "^0.35.0"
 
 [dependencies]
 clippy = { version = "^0.*", optional = true }
diff --git a/serde_tests/build.rs b/serde_tests/build.rs
index 6e1c1ff8..ad175e85 100644
--- a/serde_tests/build.rs
+++ b/serde_tests/build.rs
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-extern crate syntex;
 extern crate serde_codegen;
 
 use std::env;