diff --git a/backends/trtllm/Cargo.toml b/backends/trtllm/Cargo.toml
index f07c26d1..a5f09c11 100644
--- a/backends/trtllm/Cargo.toml
+++ b/backends/trtllm/Cargo.toml
@@ -22,4 +22,5 @@ log = { version = "0.4", features = [] }
 
 [build-dependencies]
 cmake = "0.1"
-cxx-build = "1.0"
\ No newline at end of file
+cxx-build = "1.0"
+pkg-config = "0.3"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/backends/trtllm/build.rs b/backends/trtllm/build.rs
index 0fa62ec9..4c5e6d80 100644
--- a/backends/trtllm/build.rs
+++ b/backends/trtllm/build.rs
@@ -2,11 +2,24 @@ use std::env;
 use std::path::PathBuf;
 
 use cxx_build::CFG;
+use pkg_config;
 
 const ADDITIONAL_BACKEND_LINK_LIBRARIES: [&str; 2] = ["spdlog", "fmt"];
 const CUDA_ARCH_LIST: Option<&str> = option_env!("CUDA_ARCH_LIST");
+const CUDA_REQUIRED_VERSION: &str = "12.4";
+const MPI_REQUIRED_VERSION: &str = "4.1";
+const INSTALL_PREFIX: Option<&str> = option_env!("CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX");
 const TENSORRT_ROOT_DIR: Option<&str> = option_env!("TENSORRT_ROOT_DIR");
 
+macro_rules! probe {
+    ($name: literal, $version: expr) => {
+        if let Err(_) = pkg_config::probe_library($name) {
+            pkg_config::probe_library(&format!("cuda-{}", $version))
+                .expect(&format!("Failed to locate {}", $name));
+        }
+    };
+}
+
 fn main() {
     // Misc variables
     let out_dir = PathBuf::from(env::var("OUT_DIR").unwrap());
@@ -24,11 +37,13 @@ fn main() {
             true => "Debug",
             false => "Release",
         })
+        .env("OPT_LEVEL", "3")
+        .out_dir(INSTALL_PREFIX.unwrap_or("/usr/local/tgi"))
+        .define("CMAKE_CUDA_COMPILER", "/usr/local/cuda/bin/nvcc")
         .define(
             "TGI_TRTLLM_BACKEND_TARGET_CUDA_ARCH_LIST",
             CUDA_ARCH_LIST.unwrap_or("90-real"), // Hopper by default
         )
-        .define("CMAKE_CUDA_COMPILER", "/usr/local/cuda/bin/nvcc")
         .define(
             "TGI_TRTLLM_BACKEND_TRT_ROOT",
             TENSORRT_ROOT_DIR.unwrap_or("/usr/local/tensorrt"),
@@ -37,7 +52,6 @@ fn main() {
 
     // Additional transitive CMake dependencies
     let deps_folder = out_dir.join("build").join("_deps");
-
     for dependency in ADDITIONAL_BACKEND_LINK_LIBRARIES {
         let dep_name = match build_profile.as_ref() {
             "debug" => format!("{}d", dependency),
@@ -68,55 +82,30 @@ fn main() {
     println!("cargo:rerun-if-changed=include/ffi.h");
     println!("cargo:rerun-if-changed=src/ffi.cpp");
 
-    // Emit linkage information
-    // - tgi_trtllm_backend (i.e. FFI layer - src/ffi.cpp)
-    let trtllm_lib_path = deps_folder
-        .join("trtllm-src")
-        .join("cpp")
-        .join("tensorrt_llm");
+    // Emit linkage search path
+    probe!("ompi", MPI_REQUIRED_VERSION);
 
-    let trtllm_executor_linker_search_path =
-        trtllm_lib_path.join("executor").join("x86_64-linux-gnu");
+    // Probe CUDA & co. with pkg-config
+    probe!("cuda", CUDA_REQUIRED_VERSION);
+    probe!("cudart", CUDA_REQUIRED_VERSION);
+    probe!("cublas", CUDA_REQUIRED_VERSION);
+    probe!("nvidia-ml", CUDA_REQUIRED_VERSION);
 
-    // TRTLLM libtensorrt_llm_nvrtc_wrapper.so
-    let trtllm_nvrtc_linker_search_path = trtllm_lib_path
-        .join("kernels")
-        .join("decoderMaskedMultiheadAttention")
-        .join("decoderXQAImplJIT")
-        .join("nvrtcWrapper")
-        .join("x86_64-linux-gnu");
-
-    println!(r"cargo:rustc-link-search=native=/usr/local/cuda/lib64");
-    println!(r"cargo:rustc-link-search=native=/usr/local/cuda/lib64/stubs");
+    // TensorRT
     println!(r"cargo:rustc-link-search=native=/usr/local/tensorrt/lib");
     println!(r"cargo:rustc-link-search=native={}", backend_path.display());
-    // println!(
-    //     r"cargo:rustc-link-search=native={}/build",
-    //     backend_path.display()
-    // );
+
+    // TensorRT-LLM
     println!(
         r"cargo:rustc-link-search=native={}",
         backend_path.join("lib").display()
     );
-    println!(
-        r"cargo:rustc-link-search=native={}",
-        trtllm_executor_linker_search_path.display()
-    );
-    println!(
-        r"cargo:rustc-link-search=native={}",
-        trtllm_nvrtc_linker_search_path.display()
-    );
-    println!("cargo:rustc-link-lib=dylib=cuda");
-    println!("cargo:rustc-link-lib=dylib=cudart");
-    println!("cargo:rustc-link-lib=dylib=cublas");
-    println!("cargo:rustc-link-lib=dylib=cublasLt");
-    println!("cargo:rustc-link-lib=dylib=mpi");
-    println!("cargo:rustc-link-lib=dylib=nvidia-ml");
-    println!("cargo:rustc-link-lib=dylib=nvinfer");
+    println!("cargo:rustc-link-lib=dylib=tensorrt_llm");
+    println!("cargo:rustc-link-lib=static=tensorrt_llm_executor_static");
     println!("cargo:rustc-link-lib=dylib=nvinfer_plugin_tensorrt_llm");
     println!("cargo:rustc-link-lib=dylib=tensorrt_llm_nvrtc_wrapper");
-    println!("cargo:rustc-link-lib=static=tensorrt_llm_executor_static");
-    println!("cargo:rustc-link-lib=dylib=tensorrt_llm");
+
+    // Backend
     println!("cargo:rustc-link-lib=static=tgi_trtllm_backend_impl");
     println!("cargo:rustc-link-lib=static=tgi_trtllm_backend");
 }