diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index 27cb5af5..23efed41 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ include README.md
 include README.rst
 include requirements.txt
 include setupmeta.py
+include pyproject.toml
 recursive-include thirdparty *
 include VERSION
 recursive-include wiki *
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..b03eb172
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools", "wheel", "numpy>=1.9"]