I have published a crate (serial_traits), and I want to use it for my other projects.
However, if I do use serial_traits, I get red underlines with this hover popup:

unresolved import `serial_traits`
if you wanted to use a crate named `serial_traits`, use `cargo add serial_traits` to add it to your `Cargo.toml`

The problem is that this error message is contradicting Cargo.toml:

[package]
name = "common"
version = "0.1.0"
edition = "2024"

[dependencies]
glam = "0.30.4"
serial_traits = "1.1.0"

This is a workplace, and the common crate with its dependencies was initialized with the following commands:

cargo new common --lib
cargo add glam
cargo add serial_traits

An extra thing I have done is that I added net_structs.rs (where I am trying to use serial_traits in), which I have let VSCode know the existence of by putting pub mod net_structs; in lib.rs.

I saw that others have had the same or similar problem and solved it (like this one) and I tried their solutions.
Their suggestions did not work.

Something I have noticed is that occasionally, after changing edition (trying other editions), rust-analyzer would temporarily accept that serial_traits exists.
And yet, cargo test and cargo build would still give this output:

error[E0432]: unresolved import `serial_traits`
>cargo test
   Compiling glam v0.30.4
   Compiling serial_traits v1.1.0
   Compiling common v0.1.0 (C:\Users\[me]\Projects\Git Repos\wasm_2dtestmpgame\common)
error[E0432]: unresolved import `serial_traits`
 --> common\src\net_structs.rs:2:5
  |
2 | use serial_traits::Serializable;
  |     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ use of unresolved module or unlinked crate `serial_traits`
  |
  = help: if you wanted to use a crate named `serial_traits`, use `cargo add serial_traits` to add it to your `Cargo.toml`

For more information about this error, try `rustc --explain E0432`.
error: could not compile `common` (lib) due to 1 previous error
warning: build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish...

The cargo build and cargo test commands were ran after cargo cleaning, and it shows that serial_traits successfully compiles.

Other things I have tried out, repeatedly, in arbitrary orders:

• Restarting VSCode
• Closing and reopening Command Prompt
• cargo clean
• Removing and readding serial_traits
• rustup update
• Directly copy and pasting the crate name from and to several places in case I wrote it wrong

Is there something I am missing? Maybe during the publishing process?
I have no idea what other options even exist, and I don't want to clone copies of my crate into each project I want to use it in.

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