SWIG is another option, but I've never personally (directly) used it. It allows wrapping a library from several different languages with the same SWIG interface code (so you do the SWIG part once and get a Perl interface, a Python interface, a TCL interface, . . .). If you might want to interface from multiple languages then definately take a look at SWIG, otherwise Inline::Cpp is probably going to be the easiest route.