It's not exactly what i wanted but i found out Qt has a way to do this called QProcess, it doesn't embed perl but it can call the interpreter and run the scripts which is close enough for now. I plan to keep educating myself until the perlembed documentation doesnt quite look so daunting. I'm sure you will all be hearing from me again i've found a deep interest in the perl ways :) thank you for your wisdoms, happy coding.