diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 88368db0..d8add8ed 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -19,3 +19,4 @@ Debug
 CTestTestfile.cmake
 Testing
 autogen
+MANIFEST
diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..72596804
--- /dev/null
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+include setup.py
+include include/pybind11/*.h
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..3c6e79cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+[bdist_wheel]
+universal=1
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..a915bf23
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+# Setup script for PyPI; use CMakeFile.txt to build the example application
+
+from setuptools import setup
+
+setup(
+    name='pybind11',
+    version='1.0',
+    description='Seamless operability between C++11 and Python',
+    author='Wenzel Jakob',
+    author_email='wenzel@inf.ethz.ch',
+    url='https://github.com/wjakob/pybind11',
+    download_url='https://github.com/wjakob/pybind11/tarball/v1.0',
+    packages=[],
+    license='BSD',
+    headers=[
+        'include/pybind11/cast.h',
+        'include/pybind11/complex.h',
+        'include/pybind11/numpy.h',
+        'include/pybind11/pybind11.h',
+        'include/pybind11/stl.h',
+        'include/pybind11/common.h',
+        'include/pybind11/functional.h',
+        'include/pybind11/operators.h',
+        'include/pybind11/pytypes.h',
+        'include/pybind11/typeid.h'
+    ],
+    classifiers=[
+        'Development Status :: 5 - Production/Stable',
+        'Intended Audience :: Developers',
+        'Topic :: Software Development :: Libraries :: Python Modules',
+        'Topic :: Utilities',
+        'Programming Language :: C++',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: 2.7',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.2',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.3',
+        'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.4',
+        'License :: OSI Approved :: BSD License',
+    ],
+    keywords='C++11, Python bindings',
+    long_description="""pybind11 is a lightweight header library that exposes
+C++ types in Python and vice versa, mainly to create Python bindings of
+existing C++ code. Its goals and syntax are similar to the excellent
+Boost.Python library by David Abrahams: to minimize boilerplate code in
+traditional extension modules by inferring type information using compile-time
+introspection.
+
+The main issue with Boost.Python—and the reason for creating such a similar
+project—is Boost. Boost is an enormously large and complex suite of utility
+libraries that works with almost every C++ compiler in existence. This
+compatibility has its cost: arcane template tricks and workarounds are
+necessary to support the oldest and buggiest of compiler specimens. Now that
+C++11-compatible compilers are widely available, this heavy machinery has
+become an excessively large and unnecessary dependency.
+
+Think of this library as a tiny self-contained version of Boost.Python with
+everything stripped away that isn't relevant for binding generation. The whole
+codebase requires less than 3000 lines of code and only depends on Python (2.7
+or 3.x) and the C++ standard library. This compact implementation was
+possible thanks to some of the new C++11 language features (tuples, lambda
+functions and variadic templates). Since its creation, this library has
+grown beyond Boost.Python in many ways, leading to dramatically simpler binding
+code in many common situations.""",
+)