diff --git a/databases/py-aiosqlite/Makefile b/databases/py-aiosqlite/Makefile
index e7366f7ce09e..fc515bd82ce6 100644
--- a/databases/py-aiosqlite/Makefile
+++ b/databases/py-aiosqlite/Makefile
@@ -1,20 +1,23 @@
 PORTNAME=	aiosqlite
 PORTVERSION=	0.18.0
 CATEGORIES=	databases python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	romain@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	AsyncIO bridge to the standard sqlite3 module for Python 3.7+
 WWW=		https://pypi.python.org/pypi/aiosqlite
 
 LICENSE=	MIT
 
+BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}flit-core>2:devel/py-flit-core@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}sqlite3>0:databases/py-sqlite3@${PY_FLAVOR}
 RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}sqlite3>0:databases/py-sqlite3@${PY_FLAVOR}
 
 USES=		python:3.7+
-USE_PYTHON=	autoplist distutils
+USE_PYTHON=	autoplist pep517
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
+MAKE_ENV+=	PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>