diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index 840d6e31..5b224d5c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -76,6 +76,11 @@ jobs:
     - name: Test
       run: tox -c tox.ini -e ${{ matrix.python.tox }}-tests
 
+    - name: Tree
+      if: always()
+      shell: bash
+      run: tree .tox
+
     - name: Codecov
       run: |
         codecov -n "GitHub Actions - ${{ matrix.task.name}} - ${{ matrix.os.name }} ${{ matrix.python.name }}"
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 2826ee30..df86fa4d 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -53,3 +53,11 @@ exclude = '''
   )/
 )
 '''
+
+[build-system]
+requires = [
+    "setuptools ~= 44.1.1",
+    "wheel ~= 0.36.2",
+    "incremental == 17.5.0",
+]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index caaed461..14b8f0f7 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@
 
 from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 
+# If incremental is not present then setuptools just silently uses v0.0.0 so
+# let's import it and fail instead.
+import incremental
+
+
 setup(
     name="towncrier",
     maintainer="Amber Brown",
@@ -36,7 +41,6 @@
         "Programming Language :: Python :: Implementation :: PyPy",
     ],
     use_incremental=True,
-    setup_requires=["incremental"],
     install_requires=["click", "click-default-group", "incremental", "jinja2", "toml"],
     package_dir={"": "src"},
     packages=find_packages("src"),
diff --git a/src/towncrier/newsfragments/314.feature.rst b/src/towncrier/newsfragments/314.feature.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..91ce0ef1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/towncrier/newsfragments/314.feature.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Support building with PEP 517.
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
index b2256de2..eceb7235 100644
--- a/tox.ini
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 [tox]
 envlist = cov-erase, flake8, {pypy27,pypy36,pypy37,py27,py35,py36,py37,py38,py39}-{tests,flake8,check-manifest,check-newsfragment}, cov-report
+requires=
+    virtualenv @ git+https://github.com/altendky/virtualenv@270abf2aa34de9239135206c52cabcacb27e6273
+    tox-wheel>=0.6.0
+isolated_build=true
 skip_missing_envs = true
 
 [testenv:flake8]
@@ -29,7 +33,7 @@ deps =
    coverage
    incremental
    mock
-
+wheel = True
 commands =
    python -V
    coverage --version