diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 14a9de5..ae8e3e2 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 .PHONY: all lint test test-cov install dev clean distclean
 
+PYTHON ?= python
+
 all: ;
 
 lint:
@@ -13,7 +15,7 @@ test-cov: all
 	py.test --cov=q2_vizard
 
 install: all
-	pip install .
+	$(PYTHON) -m build --wheel
 
 dev: all
 	pip install -e .
diff --git a/ci/recipe/meta.yaml b/ci/recipe/meta.yaml
index ec8e24b..63b2adb 100644
--- a/ci/recipe/meta.yaml
+++ b/ci/recipe/meta.yaml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-{% set data = load_setup_py_data() %}
-{% set version = data.get('version') or 'placehold' %}
+{%- set pyproject_toml = load_file('..', 'pyproject.toml') | parse_toml %}
+{%- set version = pyproject_toml.get('project', {}).get('version', 'placehold') %}
 
 package:
   name: q2-vizard
@@ -20,7 +20,9 @@ requirements:
 
   host:
     - python {{ python }}
+    - pip
     - setuptools
+    - wheel
 
   run:
     - python {{ python }}
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 7a9be3d..81ffe44 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 requires = [
     'setuptools>=64',
     'setuptools_scm>=8',
-    'versioneer[toml]'
+    'versioneer[toml]',
+    'wheel'
 ]
 build-backend = 'setuptools.build_meta'