diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 5c1f1c7b0c..716a097e36 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -14,7 +14,6 @@ bin
 .vscode
 **/.DS_Store
 /.cargo
-/nym-vpn-core/.cargo
 nym-vpn-core/nym-vpn-lib/generated/headers/module.modulemap
 nym-vpn-core/nym-vpn-lib/uniffi/nym_vpn_libFFI.modulemap
 nym-vpn-core/nym-vpn-lib/uniffi/nym_vpn_libFFI.h
diff --git a/nym-vpn-core/.cargo/config.toml b/nym-vpn-core/.cargo/config.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..87d9501bb3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/nym-vpn-core/.cargo/config.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+[target.x86_64-pc-windows-msvc]
+rustflags = ["-C", "link-arg=-fuse-ld=lld"]
diff --git a/nym-vpn-core/nym-vpn-lib/.cargo/config.toml b/nym-vpn-core/nym-vpn-lib/.cargo/config.toml
index 06ab31862c..8920835a8a 100644
--- a/nym-vpn-core/nym-vpn-lib/.cargo/config.toml
+++ b/nym-vpn-core/nym-vpn-lib/.cargo/config.toml
@@ -6,5 +6,3 @@ rustflags = ["-L", "./android/app/build/extraJni/x86_64"]
 rustflags = ["-L", "./android/app/build/extraJni/armeabi-v7a"]
 [target.i686-linux-android]
 rustflags = ["-L", "./android/app/build/extraJni/x86"]
-[target.x86_64-pc-windows-msvc]
-rustflags = ["-C", "link-arg=-fuse-ld=lld"]