OOLua

OOLua is a cross-platform, test driven, dependency-free and Open Source library which uses C++03 template metaprogramming along with preprocessor magic to provide a fast binding between C++ and Lua.

Although the name of the library is OOLua you do not need to expose C++ classes or use the library in an OO manner; the only hierarchy of classes that the library defines for itself are exception types when they are enabled.

The library provides:

• The ability to easily bind stand-alone functions.
• Interaction with the stack using a simple typed interface.
• Simplified method to call Lua functions from C++.
• Ease of configurability.
• Error checking either with or without exceptions.
• Simple typed Lua registry references.
• Interaction with Lua tables using a simple type.
• Passing C++ classes and user types as light userdata.
• Exposing C++ classes and hierarchies as full userdata without using C++'s RTTI and in a none-intrusive manner.
• Abilty to control which language owns which full userdata instances.
• Binding member/virtual functions on full userdata.
• Binding static functions for full userdata types.
• Binding class enumerations.
• Binding public members.
• Constructors for full userdata classes.
• Compatibility with Rio Lua 5.1, 5.2 and 5.3 also LuaJIT 1.1 and 2.0
• A guarantee that it does not call new willy-nilly.
• Support for shared_ptr.
• Support for C++11 scoped enums.

Basically you can use as little or as much of the library as you like.

Yes the library does "cover the problem with clever template metaprogramming and macros".