diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/tomlplusplus/files/run-ptest b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/tomlplusplus/files/run-ptest
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..4f682c5eb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/tomlplusplus/files/run-ptest
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+cd tests
+for atest in tomlplusplus_* ; do
+    rm -rf tests.log
+    ./${atest} > tests.log 2>&1
+    if [ $? = 0 ] ; then
+        echo "PASS: ${atest}"
+    else
+        echo "FAIL: ${atest}"
+    fi
+done
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/tomlplusplus/tomlplusplus_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/tomlplusplus/tomlplusplus_git.bb
index 0e8202bdc..245c309a2 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/tomlplusplus/tomlplusplus_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/tomlplusplus/tomlplusplus_git.bb
@@ -3,7 +3,9 @@ HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/marzer/tomlplusplus"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=90960f22c10049c117d56ed2ee5ee167"
 
-SRC_URI = "git://github.com/marzer/tomlplusplus.git;protocol=https;branch=master"
+SRC_URI = "git://github.com/marzer/tomlplusplus.git;protocol=https;branch=master \
+           file://run-ptest \
+"
 
 PV = "3.4.0"
 SRCREV = "30172438cee64926dc41fdd9c11fb3ba5b2ba9de"
@@ -11,4 +13,13 @@ S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 
 DEPENDS = "cmake-native"
 
-inherit meson
+inherit meson ptest
+
+EXTRA_OEMESON += "-Dbuild_tests=${@bb.utils.contains("DISTRO_FEATURES", "ptest", "true", "false", d)} \
+"
+
+do_install_ptest () {
+    install -d ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests
+    cp ${B}/tests/tomlplusplus_odr_test ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests
+    cp ${B}/tests/tomlplusplus_tests ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests
+}