diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/nanomsg/nng/run-ptest b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/nanomsg/nng/run-ptest
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..57888a77c9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/nanomsg/nng/run-ptest
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+RET=0
+cd tests
+
+for t in $(ls *); do
+    ./$t > /dev/null
+    if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+        echo PASS: $t
+    else
+        echo FAIL: $t
+        RET=1
+    fi
+done
+
+exit $RET
diff --git a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/nanomsg/nng_1.11.bb b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/nanomsg/nng_1.11.bb
index e59b7f34e2..031827a5c0 100644
--- a/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/nanomsg/nng_1.11.bb
+++ b/meta-networking/recipes-connectivity/nanomsg/nng_1.11.bb
@@ -5,16 +5,26 @@ SECTION = "libs/networking"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.txt;md5=a41e579bb4326c21c774f8e51e41d8a3"
 
-SRC_URI = "git://github.com/nanomsg/nng.git;branch=stable;protocol=https"
+SRC_URI = "git://github.com/nanomsg/nng.git;branch=stable;protocol=https \
+           file://run-ptest \
+          "
+
 SRCREV = "84aa701f42968bf536141a24e826da66963b571a"
 
-inherit cmake pkgconfig
+inherit cmake pkgconfig ptest
 
-EXTRA_OECMAKE = "-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON -DNNG_ENABLE_NNGCAT=ON"
+EXTRA_OECMAKE = "-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON -DNNG_ENABLE_NNGCAT=ON \
+                 ${@bb.utils.contains('PTEST_ENABLED', '1', '-DNNG_TESTS=ON', '', d)} \
+                "
 
 PACKAGECONFIG ??= ""
 
 PACKAGECONFIG[mbedtls] = "-DNNG_ENABLE_TLS=ON,-DNNG_ENABLE_TLS=OFF,mbedtls"
 
+do_install_ptest(){
+    install -d ${D}/${PTEST_PATH}/tests
+    find ${B}/tests -type f -executable -exec install {} ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests/ \;
+}
+
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-tools"
 FILES:${PN}-tools = "${bindir}/*"