What is the correct way to run a script from the “project root”?

Question

https://github.com/nlsandler/nqcc

I recently came across this C compiler, and even though the instructions are right there, I can't seem to be able to produce an executable.

Here is a program called return_2.c located in ~

int main(){
    return 2;
}

I ran git clone URL in ~ , and ran make in ~/nqcc if that makes a difference..

From ~ , I run this: ./nqcc/nqcc return_2.c

The exit code is 0 and there are no errors, so I don't know why I don't get a corresponding executable.. What am I doing wrong here?

Answer 1

As the instructions seem to tell us, most probably you need to change into the directory of the nqcc project and run the compiler there:

$ cd ~/nqcc
$ ./nqcc ../return_2.c

Looks like the scripts expect to be run on site.