diff --git a/configs/config-picocoin.h b/configs/config-picocoin.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c1ace1e81
--- /dev/null
+++ b/configs/config-picocoin.h
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+/*
+ * Reduced configuration used by Picocoin.
+ *
+ * See README.txt for usage instructions.
+ *
+ * Distinguishing features:
+ * - no SSL/TLS;
+ * - no X.509;
+ * - ECDSA/PK and some other chosen crypto bits.
+ */
+
+#ifndef POLARSSL_CONFIG_H
+#define POLARSSL_CONFIG_H
+
+/* System support */
+#define POLARSSL_HAVE_LONGLONG
+#define POLARSSL_HAVE_ASM
+#define POLARSSL_HAVE_TIME
+#define POLARSSL_HAVE_IPV6
+
+/* PolarSSL feature support */
+#define POLARSSL_CIPHER_MODE_CBC
+#define POLARSSL_CIPHER_PADDING_PKCS7
+#define POLARSSL_ECP_DP_SECP256K1_ENABLED
+#define POLARSSL_ECDSA_DETERMINISTIC
+#define POLARSSL_PK_PARSE_EC_EXTENDED
+#define POLARSSL_ERROR_STRERROR_DUMMY
+#define POLARSSL_FS_IO
+
+/* PolarSSL modules */
+#define POLARSSL_AESNI_C
+#define POLARSSL_AES_C
+#define POLARSSL_ASN1_PARSE_C
+#define POLARSSL_ASN1_WRITE_C
+#define POLARSSL_BASE64_C
+#define POLARSSL_BIGNUM_C
+#define POLARSSL_DES_C // ???
+#define POLARSSL_ECDSA_C
+#define POLARSSL_ECP_C
+#define POLARSSL_ENTROPY_C
+#define POLARSSL_HMAC_DRBG_C
+#define POLARSSL_MD_C
+#define POLARSSL_MD5_C // ???
+#define POLARSSL_OID_C
+#define POLARSSL_PADLOCK_C
+#define POLARSSL_PEM_PARSE_C // ???
+#define POLARSSL_PEM_WRITE_C // ???
+#define POLARSSL_PK_C
+#define POLARSSL_PK_PARSE_C
+#define POLARSSL_PK_WRITE_C
+#define POLARSSL_RIPEMD160_C
+#define POLARSSL_SHA1_C
+#define POLARSSL_SHA256_C
+#define POLARSSL_X509_USE_C // !!!
+#define POLARSSL_X509_CRT_PARSE_C // !!!
+
+#include "check_config.h"
+
+#endif /* POLARSSL_CONFIG_H */
diff --git a/tests/scripts/test-ref-configs.pl b/tests/scripts/test-ref-configs.pl
index 6f609252a..65871407d 100755
--- a/tests/scripts/test-ref-configs.pl
+++ b/tests/scripts/test-ref-configs.pl
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ my %configs = (
         => '-m tls1_1 -f \'^DES-CBC3-SHA$\|^TLS-RSA-WITH-3DES-EDE-CBC-SHA$\'',
     'config-suite-b.h'
         => "-m tls1_2 -f 'ECDHE-ECDSA.*AES.*GCM'",
+    'config-picocoin.h'
+        => 0,
 );
 
 # If no config-name is provided, use all known configs.
@@ -59,9 +61,17 @@ while( my ($conf, $args) = each %configs ) {
 
     system( "make" ) and abort "Failed to build: $conf\n";
     system( "make $test" ) and abort "Failed test suite: $conf\n";
-    print "\nrunning compat.sh $args\n";
-    system( "cd tests && ./compat.sh $args" )
-        and abort "Failed compat.sh: $conf\n";
+
+    if( $args )
+    {
+        print "\nrunning compat.sh $args\n";
+        system( "cd tests && ./compat.sh $args" )
+            and abort "Failed compat.sh: $conf\n";
+    }
+    else
+    {
+        print "\nskipping compat.sh\n";
+    }
 }
 
 system( "mv $config_h.bak $config_h" ) and warn "$config_h not restored\n";