diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9bac931..5bbc99e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 - Refactored Multi-threading in `DatasetReader` to prevent too many open files errors
 - Updated dependency to `pyarrow~=18.0.0` for `python>=3.9`
 - Relaxed h5py python dependency
+- Removed use of python `build` when building wheel in cmake.
 
 ## [0.3.21]
 
diff --git a/c++/pod5_format_pybind/build_wheel.cmake b/c++/pod5_format_pybind/build_wheel.cmake
index d6b53f1..93b6ec0 100644
--- a/c++/pod5_format_pybind/build_wheel.cmake
+++ b/c++/pod5_format_pybind/build_wheel.cmake
@@ -10,10 +10,10 @@ set(ENV{POD5_PYBIND_LIB} "${PYBIND_INPUT_LIB}")
 
 file(COPY "${PYBIND_INPUT_LIB}" DESTINATION "${PYTHON_PROJECT_DIR}/src/lib_pod5")
 
-message("  using: ${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE} -m build --outdir ${WHEEL_OUTPUT_DIR}")
+message("  using: ${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE} -m pip wheel . --wheel-dir ${WHEEL_OUTPUT_DIR}")
 
 execute_process(
-    COMMAND ${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE} -m build --outdir ${WHEEL_OUTPUT_DIR}
+    COMMAND ${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE} -m pip wheel . --wheel-dir ${WHEEL_OUTPUT_DIR}
     WORKING_DIRECTORY "${PYTHON_PROJECT_DIR}/"
     RESULT_VARIABLE exit_code
     OUTPUT_VARIABLE output