diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index b08b94a..cc30734 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@ requires = [
     "setuptools>=61.2",
     "Cython>=0.29.22,<3.0",
     "oldest-supported-numpy",
+    # see https://github.com/numpy/numpy/pull/18389
+    "wheel>=0.36.2",
 ]
 
 [project]