Building C and C++ libraries with Perl
It seems that somebody screwed it, and forgot one 20 pages article I wrote for YAPC::EU::2012 proceedings. Therefore, the proceedings are shorter, and are shamelessly incomplete. Anyway, you can read my article in all its glory here. And sooner or later I'll add the presentation too.
You might also be interested in ExtUtils::CChecker, for checking system or C library dependencies, and configuring the build system to use them.