Yargh (incomprehensible techno-mumbo-garble)

I'm sure this means pretty much nothing to anyone that might read this, but here I go:
As part of my Risk-esque game adventure, I want to try out Twisted Python and all that jazz. It seems as though there's a extension to Twisted (which is really just an extension of Python) called Nevow which itself has Athena built in. Athena, is, apparently, the bridge between Python and Javascript, and Nevow is a sort of web application framework that uses Twisted, and Twisted is a event-driven network framework that is driven by Python.

Now, past all that nonsense, is the fact that Twisted needs to be installed, Nevow needs to be installed. Twisted, at the very least, needs gcc (GNU C Compiler) in order to set itself up. I dunno about Twisted yet, since I was unable to get that far. The reason behind this is that the VPS I'm running on doesn't have gcc! This blows. Because I can't start work on any of it until gcc is installed. gcc, apparently, needs a C compiler to bootstrap itself up. Server does not have any sort of compiler on it. So I have to ask my host to install gcc for me. I'm waiting on them.