diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 52b7b99ef8d1..47a77cdce39c 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -25,8 +25,10 @@ Forum = "https://discuss.pytorch.org/"
 [build-system]
 requires = [
     # After 75.8.2 dropped dep disttools API. Please fix
+    # API temporarily restored and shim used. Please fix
+    # Setuptools will drop support for setup.py past 80
     # min version for recursive glob package data support
-    "setuptools>=62.3.0,<75.9",
+    "setuptools>=62.3.0,<80.0",
     "wheel",
     "astunparse",
     "numpy",
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 01f358ec9e9e..18f7810de951 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -15,8 +15,8 @@ packaging
 psutil
 pyyaml
 requests
-# issue on Windows after >= 75.8.2 - https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/issues/148877
-setuptools>=62.3.0,<75.9
+# setuptools develop deprecated on 80.0
+setuptools>=62.3.0,<80.0
 sympy>=1.13.3
 types-dataclasses
 typing-extensions>=4.10.0
diff --git a/torch/utils/cpp_extension.py b/torch/utils/cpp_extension.py
index 7697b9394a38..c0f9cbc88b5d 100644
--- a/torch/utils/cpp_extension.py
+++ b/torch/utils/cpp_extension.py
@@ -2533,9 +2533,12 @@ def _get_vc_env(vc_arch: str) -> dict[str, str]:
         from setuptools import distutils
         return distutils._msvccompiler._get_vc_env(vc_arch)
     except AttributeError:
-        from setuptools._distutils import _msvccompiler
-        return _msvccompiler._get_vc_env(vc_arch)
-
+        try:
+            from setuptools._distutils import _msvccompiler
+            return _msvccompiler._get_vc_env(vc_arch)
+        except AttributeError:
+            from setuptools._distutils.compilers.C import msvc
+            return msvc._get_vc_env(vc_arch)
 
 def _run_ninja_build(build_directory: str, verbose: bool, error_prefix: str) -> None:
     command = ['ninja', '-v']