diff --git a/bundle/docker/static/entrypoint.sh b/bundle/docker/static/entrypoint.sh
index 220275974..8049e6820 100755
--- a/bundle/docker/static/entrypoint.sh
+++ b/bundle/docker/static/entrypoint.sh
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 set -e
 
 source ~/.local/share/pipx/venvs/pyinstaller/bin/activate
+python -m devscripts.install_deps -o --include build
 python -m devscripts.install_deps --include secretstorage --include curl-cffi
 python -m devscripts.make_lazy_extractors
 python devscripts/update-version.py -c "${channel}" -r "${origin}" "${version}"
diff --git a/bundle/pyinstaller.py b/bundle/pyinstaller.py
index 4184c4bc9..c2f651121 100755
--- a/bundle/pyinstaller.py
+++ b/bundle/pyinstaller.py
@@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ def main():
         f'--name={name}',
         '--icon=devscripts/logo.ico',
         '--upx-exclude=vcruntime140.dll',
+        # Ref: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/13311
+        #      https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/issues/9149
+        '--exclude-module=pkg_resources',
         '--noconfirm',
         '--additional-hooks-dir=yt_dlp/__pyinstaller',
         *opts,
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 7accaeeb9..3775251e1 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ build = [
     "build",
     "hatchling",
     "pip",
-    "setuptools>=71.0.2",  # 71.0.0 broke pyinstaller
+    "setuptools>=71.0.2,<81",  # See https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/issues/9149
     "wheel",
 ]
 dev = [