From 02cf4beb8f7bab9929bdf25ace6a41859bff1c40 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: giadarol <giovanni.iadarola@cern.ch>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2026 22:49:07 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Declare setuptools as a runtime dependency for CPU
 compilation

---
 pyproject.toml | 1 +
 setup.py       | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 816611e7..b14fac60 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@ requires-python = ">=3.9"
 dependencies = [
     "numpy",
     "cffi",
+    "setuptools",
     "scipy"
 ]
 [project.urls]
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 24ab5f02..709bff4c 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@
     url="https://xsuite.readthedocs.io/",
     python_requires=">=3.7",
     setup_requires=[],
-    install_requires=["numpy", "cffi", "scipy"],
+    install_requires=["numpy", "cffi", "setuptools", "scipy"],
     packages=["xobjects"],
     license="Apache 2.0",
     download_url="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/xobjects",