diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index d95e9c08..5af0a6fe 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -45,8 +45,7 @@ jobs:
 
     - name: Install python dependencies
       run: |
-        python -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel
-        python -c "import setuptools;print('Setuptools version = ', setuptools.__version__)"
+        python -m pip install --upgrade pip
         pip install -v .
         pip install --no-binary=mpi4py mpi4py
         pip install pytest
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a5c0abcd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# These are needed to run setup.py
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools>=50.0", "wheel"]