diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index 1d66214659f..2bf55abe0cf 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -855,6 +855,19 @@ if with_gallium_rusticl or with_nouveau_vk or with_tools.contains('etnaviv')
   if rustc.version().version_compare('< 1.76')
     error('Mesa requires Rust 1.76.0 or newer')
   endif
+
+  bindgen_version = find_program('bindgen').version()
+  if bindgen_version == 'unknown'
+    error('Failed to detect bindgen version. If you are using bindgen 0.69.0, ' +
+          'please either update to 0.69.1 or downgrade to 0.68.1. ' +
+          'You can install the latest version for your user with `cargo install bindgen-cli`.')
+  endif
+
+  if bindgen_version.version_compare('< 0.65')
+    error('Mesa requires bindgen 0.65 or newer. ' +
+          'If your distribution does not ship a recent enough version, ' +
+          'you can install the latest version for your user with `cargo install bindgen-cli`.')
+  endif
 endif
 
 with_clover_spirv = with_gallium_clover and get_option('opencl-spirv')
diff --git a/src/gallium/frontends/rusticl/meson.build b/src/gallium/frontends/rusticl/meson.build
index 004d453c283..612e47bfe88 100644
--- a/src/gallium/frontends/rusticl/meson.build
+++ b/src/gallium/frontends/rusticl/meson.build
@@ -105,16 +105,6 @@ rusticl_bindgen_args = [
   '--anon-fields-prefix', 'anon_',
 ]
 
-bindgen_version = find_program('bindgen').version()
-
-if bindgen_version == 'unknown'
-  error('Failed to detect bindgen version. If you are using bindgen 0.69.0, please either update to 0.69.1 or downgrade to 0.68.1. You can install the latest version for your user with `cargo install bindgen-cli`.')
-endif
-
-if bindgen_version.version_compare('< 0.65')
-  error('rusticl requires bindgen 0.65 or newer. If your distribution does not ship a recent enough version, you can install the latest version for your user with `cargo install bindgen-cli`.')
-endif
-
 rusticl_bindgen_c_args = [
   '-fno-builtin-malloc',
 ]
diff --git a/src/nouveau/compiler/meson.build b/src/nouveau/compiler/meson.build
index 8819b267222..871e786e6b4 100644
--- a/src/nouveau/compiler/meson.build
+++ b/src/nouveau/compiler/meson.build
@@ -4,21 +4,6 @@ if meson.version().version_compare('< 1.3.0')
   error('NVK requires meson 1.3.0 or newer')
 endif
 
-bindgen_version = find_program('bindgen').version()
-
-if bindgen_version == 'unknown'
-  error('Failed to detect bindgen version. If you are using bindgen 0.69.0, ' +
-        'please either update to 0.69.1 or downgrade to 0.68.1. You can ' +
-        'install the latest version for your user with ' +
-        '`cargo install bindgen-cli`.')
-endif
-
-if bindgen_version.version_compare('< 0.65')
-  error('NAK requires bindgen 0.65 or newer. If your distribution does not ' +
-        'ship a recent enough version, you can install the latest version ' +
-        'for your user with `cargo install bindgen-cli`.')
-endif
-
 nak_rust_args = [
   '-Aclippy::identity_op',
   '-Aclippy::len_zero',