diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index ce37aaea1..f5af7727e 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ test = [
   "onnx>=1.15.0,<2",
   "onnxruntime>=1.12.0,<2",
   "pytest>=7.2.1,<8",
-  "pytest-cov>=4.0.0,<5"
+  "pytest-cov>=4.0.0,<5",
 ]
 
 [project.scripts]
@@ -51,7 +51,9 @@ skip = [
   # 2023-04-16: pybind11 does not support PyPy
   "pp*",
   # 2023-04-16: skip building musllinux wheels
-  "*musllinux*"
+  "*musllinux*",
+  # 2024-8-22: have to skip building macox arm64
+  "cp38-macosx_arm64" 
 ]
 before-test = ["python {package}/setup.py build_ext --inplace"]
 test-command = "pytest {package}/maraboupy/test"