diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 89450fc58f..0c3593b78d 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ endif()
 OCV_OPTION(WITH_1394           "Include IEEE1394 support"                    ON   IF (NOT ANDROID AND NOT IOS AND NOT WINRT) )
 OCV_OPTION(WITH_AVFOUNDATION   "Use AVFoundation for Video I/O"              ON   IF IOS)
 OCV_OPTION(WITH_CARBON         "Use Carbon for UI instead of Cocoa"          OFF  IF APPLE )
-OCV_OPTION(WITH_VTK            "Include VTK library support (and build opencv_viz module eiher)"             ON  IF (NOT ANDROID AND NOT IOS AND NOT WINRT) )
+OCV_OPTION(WITH_VTK            "Include VTK library support (and build opencv_viz module eiher)"             ON  IF (NOT ANDROID AND NOT IOS AND NOT WINRT AND NOT CMAKE_CROSSCOMPILING) )
 OCV_OPTION(WITH_CUDA           "Include NVidia Cuda Runtime support"                                         ON  IF (NOT IOS AND NOT WINRT) )
 OCV_OPTION(WITH_CUFFT          "Include NVidia Cuda Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) library support"            ON  IF (NOT IOS AND NOT WINRT) )
 OCV_OPTION(WITH_CUBLAS         "Include NVidia Cuda Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) library support" OFF IF (NOT IOS AND NOT WINRT) )
diff --git a/cmake/OpenCVDetectVTK.cmake b/cmake/OpenCVDetectVTK.cmake
index 2b55a9c3f1..66dcdd0112 100644
--- a/cmake/OpenCVDetectVTK.cmake
+++ b/cmake/OpenCVDetectVTK.cmake
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-if(NOT WITH_VTK OR ANDROID OR IOS)
+if(NOT WITH_VTK)
   return()
 endif()