diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 9ef6463..d080d8c 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools", "setuptools-scm"]
+requires = ["setuptools", "setuptools-scm", "wheel"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index cd48e48..226d889 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 
 from setuptools import setup, Extension
 from setuptools.command.build_ext import build_ext
+from wheel.bdist_wheel import bdist_wheel
+
 
 # These were only added to setuptools in 59.0.1.
 try:
@@ -96,10 +98,12 @@ def find_packages(location):
 
 def run_setup(with_cext):
     kwargs = {}
+    loc_cmdclass = cmdclass.copy()
     if with_cext:
         kwargs["ext_modules"] = ext_module
+        loc_cmdclass["bdist_wheel"] = bdist_wheel
 
-    setup(version=VERSION, cmdclass=cmdclass, **kwargs)
+    setup(version=VERSION, cmdclass=loc_cmdclass, **kwargs)
 
 
 if PYPY or JYTHON: