diff --git a/CI/build-3.12-VS2019.bat b/CI/build-3.12-VS2019.bat
index 11cce4191072d2ea1853642fe7fa67e45a2071e1..569e187bfb831332b4264251ff754e6329fef89f 100644
--- a/CI/build-3.12-VS2019.bat
+++ b/CI/build-3.12-VS2019.bat
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 set PATH=C:\Program Files\Python312;C:\Program Files\Python312\Scripts;C:\Program Files\CMake\bin;%PATH%
 virtualenv.exe -p "C:\Program Files\Python312\python.exe" .
 call .\Scripts\activate
+python -m pip install setuptools
 python setup.py bdist_wheel --dist-dir dist3