diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index a1239702e..d5cf5f140 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -401,7 +401,9 @@ dependencies = [
 name = "fish-util"
 version = "0.0.0"
 dependencies = [
+ "errno",
  "fish-widestring",
+ "libc",
  "nix",
  "rand",
 ]
diff --git a/crates/util/Cargo.toml b/crates/util/Cargo.toml
index 781e92040..9aa981a12 100644
--- a/crates/util/Cargo.toml
+++ b/crates/util/Cargo.toml
@@ -7,7 +7,9 @@ repository.workspace = true
 license.workspace = true
 
 [dependencies]
+errno.workspace = true
 fish-widestring.workspace = true
+libc.workspace = true
 nix.workspace = true
 rand.workspace = true
 
diff --git a/crates/util/src/lib.rs b/crates/util/src/lib.rs
index 60c444c9b..30a63cb68 100644
--- a/crates/util/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/util/src/lib.rs
@@ -1,10 +1,15 @@
 //! Generic utilities library.
 
+use errno::errno;
 use fish_widestring::prelude::*;
 use rand::{SeedableRng as _, rngs::SmallRng};
-use std::cmp::Ordering;
-use std::os::fd::{BorrowedFd, RawFd};
-use std::time;
+use std::{
+    cmp::Ordering,
+    ffi::CStr,
+    io::Write as _,
+    os::fd::{BorrowedFd, RawFd},
+    time,
+};
 
 /// Compares two wide character strings with an (arguably) intuitive ordering. This function tries
 /// to order strings in a way which is intuitive to humans with regards to sorting strings
@@ -239,6 +244,22 @@ pub fn write_to_fd(input: &[u8], fd: RawFd) -> nix::Result<usize> {
     nix::unistd::write(unsafe { BorrowedFd::borrow_raw(fd) }, input)
 }
 
+/// Prints the provided string, followed by a colon, space, and the string representation of the
+/// current errno via [`libc::strerror`].
+pub fn perror(s: &str) {
+    let e = errno().0;
+    let mut stderr = std::io::stderr().lock();
+    if !s.is_empty() {
+        let _ = write!(stderr, "{s}: ");
+    }
+    let slice = unsafe {
+        let msg = libc::strerror(e);
+        CStr::from_ptr(msg).to_bytes()
+    };
+    let _ = stderr.write_all(slice);
+    let _ = stderr.write_all(b"\n");
+}
+
 #[cfg(test)]
 mod tests {
     use super::wcsfilecmp;
diff --git a/src/builtins/cd.rs b/src/builtins/cd.rs
index 6915c66e1..97ba123d4 100644
--- a/src/builtins/cd.rs
+++ b/src/builtins/cd.rs
@@ -6,9 +6,10 @@
     fds::{BEST_O_SEARCH, wopen_dir},
     parser::ParserEnvSetMode,
     path::path_apply_cdpath,
-    wutil::{normalize_path, perror, wreadlink},
+    wutil::{normalize_path, wreadlink},
 };
 use errno::Errno;
+use fish_util::perror;
 use libc::{EACCES, ELOOP, ENOENT, ENOTDIR, EPERM};
 use nix::unistd::fchdir;
 use std::sync::Arc;
diff --git a/src/builtins/fg.rs b/src/builtins/fg.rs
index 53922f2ba..6fa05698d 100644
--- a/src/builtins/fg.rs
+++ b/src/builtins/fg.rs
@@ -4,8 +4,8 @@
 use crate::parser::ParserEnvSetMode;
 use crate::reader::{reader_save_screen_state, reader_write_title};
 use crate::tokenizer::tok_command;
-use crate::wutil::perror;
 use crate::{env::EnvMode, tty_handoff::TtyHandoff};
+use fish_util::perror;
 use libc::STDIN_FILENO;
 use nix::sys::termios::{self, tcsetattr};
 use std::os::fd::BorrowedFd;
diff --git a/src/builtins/read.rs b/src/builtins/read.rs
index 78956e316..a191abb75 100644
--- a/src/builtins/read.rs
+++ b/src/builtins/read.rs
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
 use crate::tokenizer::Tok;
 use crate::tokenizer::Tokenizer;
 use crate::wutil;
-use crate::wutil::perror;
+use fish_util::perror;
 use fish_wcstringutil::{split_about, split_string_tok};
 use libc::SEEK_CUR;
 use std::num::NonZeroUsize;
diff --git a/src/fd_monitor.rs b/src/fd_monitor.rs
index cb0a36eea..25bdbd98d 100644
--- a/src/fd_monitor.rs
+++ b/src/fd_monitor.rs
@@ -1,19 +1,19 @@
+use crate::common::exit_without_destructors;
+use crate::fd_readable_set::{FdReadableSet, Timeout};
+use crate::flog::flog;
 use crate::portable_atomic::AtomicU64;
+use crate::threads::assert_is_background_thread;
+use crate::wutil::perror_nix;
 use cfg_if::cfg_if;
+use errno::errno;
+use fish_util::perror;
+use libc::{EAGAIN, EINTR, EWOULDBLOCK};
 use std::collections::HashMap;
 use std::os::unix::prelude::*;
 use std::sync::atomic::Ordering;
 use std::sync::{Arc, Mutex};
 use std::time::Duration;
 
-use crate::common::exit_without_destructors;
-use crate::fd_readable_set::{FdReadableSet, Timeout};
-use crate::flog::flog;
-use crate::threads::assert_is_background_thread;
-use crate::wutil::{perror, perror_nix};
-use errno::errno;
-use libc::{EAGAIN, EINTR, EWOULDBLOCK};
-
 cfg_if!(
     if #[cfg(have_eventfd)] {
         use libc::{EFD_CLOEXEC, EFD_NONBLOCK};
diff --git a/src/fds.rs b/src/fds.rs
index e6b025bfb..e7d26ea3d 100644
--- a/src/fds.rs
+++ b/src/fds.rs
@@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
 use crate::flog::flog;
 use crate::prelude::*;
 use crate::signal::signal_check_cancel;
-use crate::wutil::perror;
 use crate::wutil::perror_nix;
 use cfg_if::cfg_if;
+use fish_util::perror;
 use fish_wcstringutil::wcs2zstring;
 use libc::{EINTR, F_GETFD, F_GETFL, F_SETFD, F_SETFL, FD_CLOEXEC, O_NONBLOCK, c_int};
 use nix::fcntl::FcntlArg;
diff --git a/src/io.rs b/src/io.rs
index abd56fc29..7804c0597 100644
--- a/src/io.rs
+++ b/src/io.rs
@@ -10,8 +10,9 @@
 use crate::prelude::*;
 use crate::proc::JobGroupRef;
 use crate::redirection::{RedirectionMode, RedirectionSpecList};
-use crate::wutil::{perror, perror_io, unescape_bytes_and_write_to_fd, wdirname, wstat};
+use crate::wutil::{perror_io, unescape_bytes_and_write_to_fd, wdirname, wstat};
 use errno::Errno;
+use fish_util::perror;
 use fish_wcstringutil::wcs2bytes;
 use libc::{EAGAIN, EINTR, ENOENT, ENOTDIR, EWOULDBLOCK, STDOUT_FILENO};
 use nix::fcntl::OFlag;
diff --git a/src/nix.rs b/src/nix.rs
index 57e2ec58f..2d695e749 100644
--- a/src/nix.rs
+++ b/src/nix.rs
@@ -1,9 +1,8 @@
 //! Safe wrappers around various libc functions that we might want to reuse across modules.
 
-use std::time::Duration;
-
-use crate::wutil::perror;
+use fish_util::perror;
 use libc::mode_t;
+use std::time::Duration;
 
 #[allow(clippy::unnecessary_cast)]
 pub const fn timeval_to_duration(val: &libc::timeval) -> Duration {
diff --git a/src/reader/reader.rs b/src/reader/reader.rs
index b7392903e..62b075aaf 100644
--- a/src/reader/reader.rs
+++ b/src/reader/reader.rs
@@ -113,14 +113,14 @@
     TtyHandoff, get_tty_protocols_active, initialize_tty_protocols, safe_deactivate_tty_protocols,
 };
 use crate::wildcard::wildcard_has;
-use crate::wutil::{fstat, perror, perror_nix, wstat};
+use crate::wutil::{fstat, perror_nix, wstat};
 use crate::{abbrs, event, function};
 use assert_matches::assert_matches;
 use errno::{Errno, errno};
 use fish_common::{UTF8_BOM_WCHAR, help_section};
 use fish_fallback::fish_wcwidth;
 use fish_fallback::lowercase;
-use fish_util::write_to_fd;
+use fish_util::{perror, write_to_fd};
 use fish_wcstringutil::{
     CaseSensitivity, IsPrefix, StringFuzzyMatch, count_preceding_backslashes, is_prefix,
     join_strings, string_prefixes_string, string_prefixes_string_case_insensitive,
diff --git a/src/signal.rs b/src/signal.rs
index 6806c6bf8..224f5ccd9 100644
--- a/src/signal.rs
+++ b/src/signal.rs
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-use std::mem::MaybeUninit;
-use std::num::NonZeroI32;
-
 use crate::common::exit_without_destructors;
 use crate::event::{enqueue_signal, is_signal_observed};
 use crate::nix::getpid;
@@ -9,12 +6,17 @@
 use crate::termsize::safe_termsize_invalidate_tty;
 use crate::topic_monitor::{Generation, GenerationsList, Topic, topic_monitor_principal};
 use crate::tty_handoff::{safe_deactivate_tty_protocols, safe_mark_tty_invalid};
-use crate::wutil::{fish_wcstoi, perror};
+use crate::wutil::fish_wcstoi;
 use errno::{errno, set_errno};
+use fish_util::perror;
 use nix::sys::signal::{SaFlags, SigAction, SigHandler, SigSet, SigmaskHow, sigprocmask};
-use std::sync::{
-    LazyLock,
-    atomic::{AtomicI32, Ordering},
+use std::{
+    mem::MaybeUninit,
+    num::NonZeroI32,
+    sync::{
+        LazyLock,
+        atomic::{AtomicI32, Ordering},
+    },
 };
 
 /// Store the "main" pid. This allows us to reliably determine if we are in a forked child.
diff --git a/src/topic_monitor.rs b/src/topic_monitor.rs
index 459a15ba4..9e5efd2b1 100644
--- a/src/topic_monitor.rs
+++ b/src/topic_monitor.rs
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
 use crate::fd_readable_set::{FdReadableSet, Timeout};
 use crate::fds::{self, AutoClosePipes, make_fd_nonblocking};
 use crate::flog::{FloggableDebug, flog};
-use crate::wutil::perror;
+use fish_util::perror;
 use fish_widestring::WString;
 use nix::errno::Errno;
 use nix::unistd;
diff --git a/src/tty_handoff.rs b/src/tty_handoff.rs
index 121e09989..f52430383 100644
--- a/src/tty_handoff.rs
+++ b/src/tty_handoff.rs
@@ -17,7 +17,8 @@
     KittyKeyboardProgressiveEnhancementsEnable, ModifyOtherKeysDisable, ModifyOtherKeysEnable,
 };
 use crate::threads::assert_is_main_thread;
-use crate::wutil::{perror, perror_nix, wcstoi};
+use crate::wutil::{perror_nix, wcstoi};
+use fish_util::perror;
 use libc::{EINVAL, ENOTTY, EPERM, STDIN_FILENO, WNOHANG};
 use nix::sys::termios::tcgetattr;
 use nix::unistd::getpgrp;
diff --git a/src/wutil/mod.rs b/src/wutil/mod.rs
index 47fbf691b..498447b25 100644
--- a/src/wutil/mod.rs
+++ b/src/wutil/mod.rs
@@ -12,14 +12,13 @@
 use crate::flog;
 use crate::signal::SigChecker;
 use crate::topic_monitor::Topic;
-use errno::errno;
-use fish_util::write_to_fd;
+use fish_util::{perror, write_to_fd};
 use fish_wcstringutil::{join_strings, str2bytes_callback, wcs2osstring, wcs2zstring};
 use fish_widestring::{IntoCharIter, L, WExt as _, WString, wstr};
 use nix::unistd::AccessFlags;
-use std::ffi::{CStr, OsStr};
+use std::ffi::OsStr;
 use std::fs::{self, canonicalize};
-use std::io::{self, Write as _};
+use std::io;
 use std::os::unix::prelude::*;
 
 pub use crate::wutil::printf::{eprintf, fprintf, printf, sprintf};
@@ -66,21 +65,6 @@ pub fn wunlink(file_name: &wstr) -> io::Result<()> {
     fs::remove_file(tmp)
 }
 
-/// Port of the wide-string wperror from `src/wutil.cpp` but for rust `&str`.
-pub fn perror(s: &str) {
-    let e = errno().0;
-    let mut stderr = std::io::stderr().lock();
-    if !s.is_empty() {
-        let _ = write!(stderr, "{s}: ");
-    }
-    let slice = unsafe {
-        let msg = libc::strerror(e);
-        CStr::from_ptr(msg).to_bytes()
-    };
-    let _ = stderr.write_all(slice);
-    let _ = stderr.write_all(b"\n");
-}
-
 pub fn perror_nix(s: &str, e: nix::errno::Errno) {
     eprintf!("%s: %s\n", s, e.desc());
 }