making a .cgi in c++ work?

[sanyam]

I recently came to know about cgi. So I made a simple program in c++.

#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
int main()
{
	cout<<"Content-type: text/plain"<<endl<<endl;
	cout<<"Hello World!"<<endl;

	return 0;
}

saved the text and saved the file as script.cpp.cgi
uploaded it into the cgi-bin directory of my website

but when I open the mywebsite.com/cgi-bin/script.cpp.cgi
it gives me an error: Exec format error

[iantac]

read this

http://www.openroad.org/cgihelp/cgi.html
http://www.guyrutenberg.com/2007/08/10/introduction-to-c-cgi/

[sanyam]

sorry, this does not address my problem

[modoran]

Compile first the program (preferably directly on the server), give it chmod 755 and it should work.