you will need: crystax ndk http://www.crystax.net/android/ndk-r4.php download and unzip to your home directory run the getvtk.sh script, or download and unzip VTK release 5.6.1 somewhere. then from this directory: mkdir build cd build cmake-gui .. make As part of the cmake-gui step, select the VTK root directory ( if its different ), and the android-ndk path. you may want to set j to 16 or something.