diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 02db79b9..66929cb9 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools"]
+requires = ["cloudpickle", "mpi4py", "pyzmq", "setuptools", "tqdm", "versioneer[toml]==0.29"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]