diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..818f22d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/README.md
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+# clr-loader
+
+Implements a generic interface for loading one of the CLR (.NET) runtime implementations and calling simple functions on them.
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/build_netfx_loader.sh b/build_netfx_loader.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index f837605..0000000
--- a/build_netfx_loader.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,10 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-S=`dirname $0`
-P=netfx_loader/
-O=$S/clr_loader/ffi/dlls/
-
-mkdir -p "$O" || exit -1
-
-dotnet build "$P" -r win-x86 -o "$O/x86" || exit -1
-dotnet build "$P" -r win-x64 -o "$O/amd64" || exit -1
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b80200b..64410f0 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,6 +1,46 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env python
 
-from distutils.core import setup
+from setuptools import setup, find_packages
+from distutils.cmd import Command
+
+
+class DotnetLib:
+    def __init__(self, path, **kwargs):
+        self.path = path
+        self.args = kwargs
+
+
+class BuildDotnet(Command):
+    """Build command for dotnet-cli based builds"""
+
+    description = "Build DLLs with dotnet-cli"
+    user_options = [("dotnet-config", None, "dotnet build configuration")]
+
+    def initialize_options(self):
+        self.dotnet_config = "release"
+
+    def finalize_options(self):
+        pass
+
+    def run(self):
+        # self.spawn(["./build_netfx_loader.sh"])
+        for lib in self.distribution.ext_modules:
+            opts = sum(
+                [
+                    ["--" + name.replace("_", "-"), value]
+                    for name, value in lib.args.items()
+                ],
+                [],
+            )
+
+            opts.append("--configuration")
+            opts.append(self.dotnet_config)
+
+            self.spawn(["dotnet", "build", lib.path] + opts)
+
+
+with open("README.md", "r") as f:
+    long_description = f.read()
 
 setup(
     name="clr_loader",
@@ -8,6 +48,8 @@ setup(
     description="Generic pure Python loader for .NET runtimes",
     author="Benedikt Reinartz",
     author_email="filmor@gmail.com",
+    long_description=long_description,
+    long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
     license="MIT",
     install_requires=["cffi"],
     classifiers=[
@@ -19,6 +61,13 @@ setup(
         "Operating System :: POSIX :: Linux",
         "Operating System :: MacOS :: MacOS X",
     ],
-    package_data={"clr_loader.ffi": ["dlls/x86/*", "dlls/amd64/*"]},
-    packages=["clr_loader", "clr_loader.ffi", "clr_loader.util"],
+    package_data={"clr_loader.ffi": ["dlls/x86/*.dll", "dlls/amd64/*.dll"]},
+    packages=find_packages(),
+    cmdclass={"build_ext": BuildDotnet},
+    ext_modules={
+        DotnetLib("netfx_loader/", runtime="win-x86", output="clr_loader/ffi/dlls/x86"),
+        DotnetLib(
+            "netfx_loader/", runtime="win-x64", output="clr_loader/ffi/dlls/amd64"
+        ),
+    },
 )