diff --git a/build-recipes/macos_build_requirements.txt b/build-recipes/macos_build_requirements.txt
index b17e005..aadb4bf 100644
--- a/build-recipes/macos_build_requirements.txt
+++ b/build-recipes/macos_build_requirements.txt
@@ -1,13 +1,4 @@
 # Any additional requirements for building the application
-# https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/issues/4110
-joblib>=0.14.0
-# FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '[...]matplotlibrc'
-matplotlib==3.3.4
-# https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/issues/5004
-pyinstaller>=4.2
-# https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/issues/5631
-pyqt5==5.15.3
-# pyinstaller is missing a hook for the latest release of scipy
-scipy<1.5.0
-# this can be removed when PyInstaller<4.7 is released
-numpy<1.22.0
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+# Issues with setuptools._distutils
+pyinstaller==5.3
+setuptools
diff --git a/build-recipes/win_build_requirements.txt b/build-recipes/win_build_requirements.txt
index 3aaa6c6..1b05396 100644
--- a/build-recipes/win_build_requirements.txt
+++ b/build-recipes/win_build_requirements.txt
@@ -1,11 +1,8 @@
 # Any additional requirements for building the application
-# https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/issues/4110
-joblib>=0.14.0
-# FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '[...]matplotlibrc'
-matplotlib==3.3.4
-# https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/issues/5004
-pyinstaller>=4.2
+# Any additional requirements for building the application
+# Issues with setuptools._distutils
+pyinstaller==5.3
+setuptools
+scipy<=1.9.1
 # nanite needs scikit-learn>0.23.0
 scikit-learn==0.23.1
-# pyinstaller is missing a hook for the latest release of scipy
-scipy<1.5.0
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