You can build Qt and /or VTK statically or dynamically. On Linux you will not be facing some problems if you mix statically/dynamically build components you might be facing on Windows. But your application needs to be linked against all required modules. Look at your VTK bin folder . It should have module named vtkRenderingCore (.a?). Link against it, some problems you listed should be gone. Then take next undefined reference. find which module it belongs to, link to it and so on. VTK people recommend to use CMAKE for your project. In these case it is easier to resolve dependencies.