diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 19ee7a5..dd629a9 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools>=42", "wheel", "setuptools_scm[toml]>=3.4"]
+requires = ["setuptools>=64", "wheel", "setuptools_scm[toml]>=3.4"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
 [tool.setuptools_scm]
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
deleted file mode 100644
index 6068493..0000000
--- a/setup.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-from setuptools import setup
-
-setup()