diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 8e1c220..45297b6 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -25,20 +25,6 @@ class CustomBuildExtCommand(build_ext):
         install_h3(h3_version)


-# Tested with wheel v0.29.0
-class BinaryDistribution(Distribution):
-    def __init__(self, attrs=None):
-        Distribution.__init__(self, attrs)
-        # The values used for the name and sources in the Extension below are
-        # not important, because we override the build_ext command above.
-        # The normal C extension building logic is never invoked, and is
-        # replaced with our own custom logic. However, ext_modules cannot be
-        # empty, because this signals to other parts of distutils that our
-        # package contains C extensions and thus needs to be built for
-        # different platforms separately.
-        self.ext_modules = [Extension('h3c', [])]
-
-
 long_description = open('README.rst').read()

 setup(
@@ -52,14 +38,10 @@ setup(
     url='https://github.com/uber/h3-py.git',
     packages=find_packages(exclude=['tests', 'tests.*']),
     install_requires=[],
-    cmdclass={
-        'build_ext': CustomBuildExtCommand,
-    },
     package_data={
         'h-py':
         ['out/*.dylib' if platform.system() == 'Darwin' else (
             'out/*.dll' if platform.system() == 'Windows' else
             'out/*.so.*')]
     },
-    license='Apache License 2.0',
-    distclass=BinaryDistribution)
+    license='Apache License 2.0')