diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index a8f43fefd..59e77895e 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,2 +1,10 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = [
+    "setuptools >= 40.8.0",
+    "setuptools_scm >= 2.0.0, <4",
+    "wheel >= 0.29.0",
+]
+build-backend = 'setuptools.build_meta'
+
 [tool.black]
 line-length = 79