diff --git a/asv.conf.json b/asv.conf.json
index 95402935..d826f85b 100644
--- a/asv.conf.json
+++ b/asv.conf.json
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
     "project_url": "https://github.com/tqdm/tqdm/",
     "repo": ".",
     "environment_type": "virtualenv",
+    "build_command": ["PIP_NO_BUILD_ISOLATION=false python -mpip wheel --no-deps --no-index -w {build_cache_dir} ."],
     "show_commit_url": "https://github.com/tqdm/tqdm/commit/",
     // "pythons": ["2.7", "3.6"],
     // "conda_channels": ["conda-forge", "defaults"],