--- eccodes-1.7.0.unchanged/setup.py	2024-02-26 13:49:10.000000000 +0100
+++ eccodes-1.7.0.p1/setup.py	2024-03-24 11:57:08.748089123 +0100
@@ -56,6 +56,8 @@ setuptools.setup(
     license="Apache License Version 2.0",
     url="https://github.com/ecmwf/eccodes-python",
     packages=setuptools.find_packages(),
+    setup_requires=["cffi"],
+    cffi_modules=["builder.py:ffibuilder"],
     include_package_data=True,
     install_requires=install_requires,
     tests_require=[