diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index c060b42a6a..850d5aba78 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -35,3 +35,4 @@ pip-log.txt
 # Coverage artifacts
 .coverage
 coverage.xml
+pip-wheel-metadata
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ae8c8be22c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = [
+  "setuptools == 41.0.0",  # See https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/1869
+  "setuptools_scm >= 1.15.0",
+  "setuptools_scm_git_archive >= 1.0",
+  "wheel",
+]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"