How do you run a uncompiled CGI?

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Published on 2010-04-27T14:31:40Z Indexed on 2010/04/27 14:33 UTC
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I'm going to get right to it.

iPage shared hosting.
Trying to use mimetex.cgi to render math. Source code is at the link.
After preparing everything just as I had with a different shared host (which worked), I get errors. Tech support tells me I need to upload the uncompiled source and use that instead.
???

Rather than going with them just being ignorant and wrong, I'm going to assume I'm missing something. How am I supposed to execute and make use of the uncompiled source code? What the hell is wrong with a hosting service that doesn't support running compiled CGI written in C (as far as I can tell)?

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