diff --git a/package/pugixml/Config.in b/package/pugixml/Config.in
index c37b1df9e5..6b7d2e3259 100644
--- a/package/pugixml/Config.in
+++ b/package/pugixml/Config.in
@@ -18,5 +18,37 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_PUGIXML
 	  http://pugixml.org/
 	  https://github.com/zeux/pugixml
 
+if BR2_PACKAGE_PUGIXML
+
+config BR2_PACKAGE_PUGIXML_XPATH_SUPPORT
+	bool "Enable XPath support"
+	default y
+	help
+	  When disabled, both XPath interfaces and XPath implementation
+	  are excluded from compilation. This option is provided in case
+	  you do not need XPath functionality and need to save code
+	  space.
+
+config BR2_PACKAGE_PUGIXML_COMPACT
+	bool "Enable compact mode"
+	help
+	  Activates a different internal representation of document
+	  storage that is much more memory efficient for documents with
+	  a lot of markup (i.e.  nodes and attributes), but is slightly
+	  slower to parse and access.
+
+	  http://pugixml.org/docs/manual.html#dom.memory.compact
+
+config BR2_PACKAGE_PUGIXML_HEADER_ONLY
+	bool "Enable header-only version"
+	help
+	  All source code for pugixml will be included in every
+	  translation unit that includes pugixml.hpp. This is how most
+	  of Boost and STL libraries work.
+
+	  http://pugixml.org/docs/manual.html#install.building.header
+
+endif
+
 comment "pugixml needs a toolchain w/ C++"
 	depends on !BR2_INSTALL_LIBSTDCPP
diff --git a/package/pugixml/pugixml.mk b/package/pugixml/pugixml.mk
index e5188e5f53..acf22604c4 100644
--- a/package/pugixml/pugixml.mk
+++ b/package/pugixml/pugixml.mk
@@ -10,4 +10,18 @@ PUGIXML_LICENSE = MIT
 PUGIXML_LICENSE_FILES = readme.txt
 PUGIXML_INSTALL_STAGING = YES
 
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_PUGIXML_XPATH_SUPPORT),)
+PUGIXML_BUILD_DEFINES += PUGIXML_NO_XPATH
+endif
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_PUGIXML_COMPACT),y)
+PUGIXML_BUILD_DEFINES += PUGIXML_COMPACT
+endif
+ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_PUGIXML_HEADER_ONLY),y)
+PUGIXML_BUILD_DEFINES += PUGIXML_HEADER_ONLY
+endif
+
+ifdef PUGIXML_BUILD_DEFINES
+PUGIXML_CONF_OPTS += -DBUILD_DEFINES="$(subst $(space),;,$(PUGIXML_BUILD_DEFINES))"
+endif
+
 $(eval $(cmake-package))