diff --git a/MDANSE/pyproject.toml b/MDANSE/pyproject.toml
index 982b8a7afb..108f012faf 100644
--- a/MDANSE/pyproject.toml
+++ b/MDANSE/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools", "cython", "numpy"]
+requires = ["setuptools", "cython", "numpy", "pip", "wheel"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
diff --git a/MDANSE_GUI/pyproject.toml b/MDANSE_GUI/pyproject.toml
index cedfa2746f..1028582980 100644
--- a/MDANSE_GUI/pyproject.toml
+++ b/MDANSE_GUI/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools", "numpy"]
+requires = ["setuptools", "numpy", "pip", "wheel"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]