diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
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--- a/Dockerfile
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@
 # Use an official Python runtime as a parent image
 FROM python:3.11-slim
 
+# Install build tools
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y build-essential python3-dev
+
 # Copy the Python scripts and the entrypoint script into the container
 COPY drawio2clab.py /app/
 COPY clab2drawio.py /app/