diff --git a/include/forcing/ForcingsEngineDataProvider.hpp b/include/forcing/ForcingsEngineDataProvider.hpp
index 7a6254636f..5dcf8f8f69 100644
--- a/include/forcing/ForcingsEngineDataProvider.hpp
+++ b/include/forcing/ForcingsEngineDataProvider.hpp
@@ -1,5 +1,9 @@
 #pragma once
 
+#include <NGenConfig.h>
+
+#if NGEN_WITH_PYTHON
+
 #include <cmath>
 #include <chrono>
 #include <memory>
@@ -211,3 +215,5 @@ struct ForcingsEngineDataProvider
 };
 
 } // namespace data_access
+
+#endif // NGEN_WITH_PYTHON