diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc
index 9a7b25a916..e6e725bd25 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ PTESTS_FAST = "\
     libgpg-error\
     libnl \
     libpcre \
+    librsvg \
     libssh2 \
     libtest-fatal-perl \
     libtest-needs-perl \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-gnome/librsvg/librsvg/run-ptest b/meta/recipes-gnome/librsvg/librsvg/run-ptest
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..da1c65f1a6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-gnome/librsvg/librsvg/run-ptest
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+export CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "$0")" && pwd)"
+cd $CARGO_MANIFEST_DIR
+
+ln -sf `which rsvg-convert` ./rsvg-convert
+
+./api_test/bin/api
+
+if [ $? = 0 ]; then
+  echo PASS: /usr/lib/librsvg/ptest/api_test/bin/api
+  rc=0
+else
+  echo FAIL: /usr/lib/librsvg/ptest/api_test/bin/api
+  rc=1
+fi
+
+# rust tests are appended here by ptest-cargo class
diff --git a/meta/recipes-gnome/librsvg/librsvg_2.61.0.bb b/meta/recipes-gnome/librsvg/librsvg_2.61.0.bb
index dda51abab5..de1853c6d8 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-gnome/librsvg/librsvg_2.61.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-gnome/librsvg/librsvg_2.61.0.bb
@@ -11,9 +11,10 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING.LIB;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c"
 
 SECTION = "x11/utils"
 DEPENDS = "cairo gdk-pixbuf glib-2.0 libxml2 pango python3-docutils-native cargo-c-native"
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "rsvg liberation-fonts"
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
 
-inherit cargo_common gnomebase pixbufcache gobject-introspection rust vala gi-docgen cargo-update-recipe-crates
+inherit cargo_common gnomebase pixbufcache gobject-introspection rust vala gi-docgen cargo-update-recipe-crates ptest-cargo
 GIR_MESON_ENABLE_FLAG = 'enabled'
 GIR_MESON_DISABLE_FLAG = 'disabled'
 GIDOCGEN_MESON_OPTION = 'docs'
@@ -23,7 +24,8 @@ GIDOCGEN_MESON_DISABLE_FLAG = 'disabled'
 require ${BPN}-crates.inc
 
 SRC_URI += "file://0001-query-rustc-append-RUSTFLAGS-to-rustc-executable.patch \
-            file://0001-Revert-meson.build-do-not-force-disable-gdk-pixbuf-l.patch"
+            file://0001-Revert-meson.build-do-not-force-disable-gdk-pixbuf-l.patch \
+            file://run-ptest"
 SRC_URI[archive.sha256sum] = "dbd0db40a1179a382fbb8cc930837671b973d722ba106a3dee2aad0fd858e2c4"
 
 UPSTREAM_CHECK_REGEX = "librsvg-(?P<pver>\d+\.\d+\.(?!9\d+)\d+)"
@@ -58,17 +60,41 @@ LDFLAGS += " -L${B}/rsvg"
 # needed on ubuntu 20.04/debian 11 to avoid 'undefined reference to `dlsym'' errors
 BUILD_LDFLAGS += " -ldl"
 
-PACKAGECONFIG ??= "gdkpixbuf"
+PACKAGECONFIG ??= "gdkpixbuf ${@bb.utils.contains('PTEST_ENABLED', '1', 'apitest', '', d)}"
 PACKAGECONFIG:append:class-target = " ${@bb.utils.contains('GI_DATA_ENABLED', 'True', 'vala', '', d)}"
 # The gdk-pixbuf loader
 PACKAGECONFIG[gdkpixbuf] = "-Dpixbuf-loader=enabled,-Dpixbuf-loader=disabled,gdk-pixbuf-native"
 PACKAGECONFIG[vala] = "-Dvala=enabled,-Dvala=disabled"
+PACKAGECONFIG[apitest] = "-Dtests=true,-Dtests=false"
 
 do_install:append() {
 	# Loadable modules don't need .a or .la on Linux
 	rm -f ${D}${libdir}/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/*/loaders/*.a ${D}${libdir}/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/*/loaders/*.la
 }
 
+do_compile_ptest_cargo:prepend() {
+    # The packageconfig is for meson, but the rust tests are compiled directly with cargo,
+    # so these arguments don't apply. Note that this is Python, the intendation is intentional.
+    d.setVar('PACKAGECONFIG_CONFARGS', '')
+}
+
+do_compile_ptest:prepend() {
+	# rsvg-convert is the tested binary, which shouldn't be executed as a test.
+	# Beside this, it is not bit-identical to the actual rsvg-convert binary, so
+	# remove it from this list, as create  a symlink to the real thing from run-ptest script
+	sed -i '/rsvg-convert$/d' ${CARGO_TEST_BINARIES_FILES}
+}
+
+do_install_ptest:append() {
+	install -d ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/api_test/bin
+	cp -r ${S}/rsvg/tests ${D}${PTEST_PATH}
+	cp -r ${S}/rsvg_convert/tests ${D}${PTEST_PATH}
+	install ${B}/librsvg-c/tests-c/api ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/api_test/bin
+	# the api tests look for the required files in rsvg folder, so simulate it
+	# with a symlink that points to the current folder
+	ln -s . ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/rsvg
+}
+
 PACKAGES =+ "librsvg-gtk rsvg"
 FILES:rsvg = "${bindir}/rsvg* \
 	      ${datadir}/pixmaps/svg-viewer.svg \