diff --git a/backends/trtllm/build.rs b/backends/trtllm/build.rs
index e69de29b..86b17a7e 100644
--- a/backends/trtllm/build.rs
+++ b/backends/trtllm/build.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,77 @@
+use std::env;
+use std::path::{Path, PathBuf};
+
+use anyhow::{anyhow, Error};
+use git2::{Error as GitError, Repository, SubmoduleUpdateOptions};
+use git2::build::CheckoutBuilder;
+
+const ENV_TGI_TENSORRT_LLM_VERSION: &str = "TGI_TRTLLM_VERSION";
+const ENV_TGI_TENSORRT_LLM_VERSION_COMMIT: &str = "TGI_TRTLLM_VERSION_COMMIT";
+
+const TENSORRT_LLM_REPOSITORY_URL: &str = "https://github.com/nvidia/tensorrt-llm";
+const TENSORRT_LLM_REPOSITORY_COMMIT_HASH: &str = "9691e12bce7ae1c126c435a049eb516eb119486c";
+
+macro_rules! log {
+    ($fmt:expr) => (println!(concat!("trtllm-sys/build.rs:{}: ", $fmt), line!()));
+    ($fmt:expr, $($arg:tt)*) => (println!(concat!("trtllm-sys/build.rs:{}: ", $fmt),
+    line!(), $($arg)*));
+}
+
+fn get_trtllm_snapshot<P: AsRef<Path>>(
+    origin: &str,
+    version: &str,
+    dest: P,
+) -> Result<(), GitError> {
+    let dest = dest.as_ref();
+
+    let mut repo = if dest.join(".git").exists() {
+        Repository::open(dest)
+    } else {
+        Repository::init(dest)
+    }?;
+
+    let mut remote = repo.remote_anonymous(origin)?;
+    remote.fetch(&["main"], None, None)?;
+
+    log!("Successfully fetched main on remote");
+
+    let mut fetch_head = repo.find_reference("FETCH_HEAD")?;
+    let commit = repo.find_commit_by_prefix(version)?;
+
+    log!("Targeting commit {:?}", commit);
+
+    let target = fetch_head.set_target(
+        commit.id(),
+        &format!("Fast-Forward to {TENSORRT_LLM_REPOSITORY_COMMIT_HASH}"),
+    )?;
+
+    repo.set_head(target.name().unwrap())?;
+    repo.checkout_head(Some(CheckoutBuilder::default().force()))?;
+
+    for mut submodule in repo.submodules()? {
+        submodule.sync()?;
+        submodule.update(true, Some(SubmoduleUpdateOptions::new().allow_fetch(true)))?
+    }
+
+    Ok(())
+}
+
+fn main() -> Result<(), Error> {
+    env::set_var(
+        ENV_TGI_TENSORRT_LLM_VERSION_COMMIT,
+        TENSORRT_LLM_REPOSITORY_COMMIT_HASH,
+    );
+
+    let tensorrt_llm_sources_dir = PathBuf::from(env::var("OUT_DIR").unwrap()).join("tensorrt-llm");
+    let _build_profile: String = env::var("PROFILE").unwrap();
+
+    // First we need to retrieve TensorRT-LLM sources to build the library to link against
+    get_trtllm_snapshot(
+        TENSORRT_LLM_REPOSITORY_URL,
+        TENSORRT_LLM_REPOSITORY_COMMIT_HASH,
+        tensorrt_llm_sources_dir,
+    )
+    .map_err(|e| anyhow!(e))?;
+
+    Ok(())
+}