diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 79b828fd..66acc241 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools", "setuptools-grpc"]
+requires = [ "setuptools>=61",
+  "wheel",
+  "setuptools-grpc",
+  "grpcio-tools"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [project]
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 3de6086d..cf2036f1 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,7 +1,5 @@
-from distutils.command.build import build
-
 from setuptools import setup
-
+from setuptools.command.build import build
 
 class build_grpc(build):
     """