diff --git a/.github/workflows/build_wheels.yml b/.github/workflows/build_wheels.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6a27b21
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_wheels.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,44 @@
+name: Build
+
+on: [push, pull_request]
+
+jobs:
+  build_wheels:
+    name: Build wheels on ${{ matrix.os }}
+    runs-on: ${{ matrix.os }}
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+#        os: [ubuntu-20.04, windows-2019, macos-10.15]
+        os: [ubuntu-20.04]
+
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+      - name: Build wheels
+        uses: pypa/cibuildwheel@v1.12.0
+        # to supply options, put them in 'env', like:
+        env:
+          CIBW_BEFORE_ALL_LINUX: yum install -y wget
+          # install something required for the build (you might want to use pyproject.toml instead)
+          CIBW_BEFORE_BUILD: pip install pybind11 && python setup.py install
+      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
+        with:
+          path: ./wheelhouse/*.whl
+
+  build_sdist:
+    name: Build source distribution
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v2
+
+      - uses: actions/setup-python@v2
+        name: Install Python
+        with:
+          python-version: '3.8'
+
+      - name: Build sdist
+        run: python setup.py sdist
+
+      - uses: actions/upload-artifact@v2
+        with:
+          path: dist/*.tar.gz
diff --git a/mecab/mecab.py b/mecab/mecab.py
index 02a002e..0ac55c7 100644
--- a/mecab/mecab.py
+++ b/mecab/mecab.py
@@ -43,14 +43,25 @@ class MeCabError(Exception):
     pass
 
 
-class MeCab:  # APIs are inspried by KoNLPy
-    def __init__(self, dicpath=''):
-        argument = ''
+class MeCab:  # APIs are inspired by KoNLPy
+    def __init__(self, dicpath=None, mecabrc_path=None):
+        arguments = []
 
-        if dicpath != '':
-            argument = '-d %s' % dicpath
+        if mecabrc_path:
+            arguments.append(f"-r {mecabrc_path}")
 
-        self.tagger = _mecab.Tagger(argument)
+        if dicpath:
+            arguments.append(f"-d {dicpath}")
+
+        arguments_str = " ".join(arguments)
+
+        try:
+            self.tagger = _mecab.Tagger(arguments_str)
+        except TypeError as e:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "Error loading tagger; try specifying the `dic_path' and/or `mecabrc_path`; "
+                f"({e})"
+            )
 
     def parse(self, sentence):
         lattice = _create_lattice(sentence)
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0443bb9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+[build-system]
+requires = [
+    "setuptools>=42",
+    "wheel",
+    "pybind11>=2.0",
+]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"