diff --git a/appveyor.yml b/appveyor.yml
index d5525006..f7067b89 100644
--- a/appveyor.yml
+++ b/appveyor.yml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ init:
 install:
 #  - ps: (new-object net.webclient).DownloadFile('https://bootstrap.pypa.io/get-pip.py', 'C:/get-pip.py')
 #  - "%PYTHON%/python.exe C:/get-pip.py"
-  - "%PYTHON%/Scripts/pip.exe install -U pip"
+  - "%PYTHON%/Scripts/pip.exe install -U pip setuptools"
   - "%PYTHON%/Scripts/pip.exe install -e ."
 test_script:
   - "%PYTHON%/Scripts/pip.exe --version"