diff --git a/rpg_cpp/.gitignore b/rpg_cpp/.gitignore
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
diff --git a/rpg_cpp/compile.sh b/rpg_cpp/compile.sh
index 98bb02ca..53789028 100755
--- a/rpg_cpp/compile.sh
+++ b/rpg_cpp/compile.sh
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ if [ $# -eq 0 ]; then
 echo "Compile third party librares"
 
 # get current path and append rpg_cpp
-rpg_path=`pwd`/rpg_cpp
+rpg_path=`pwd` 
 
 # Entering folder with compressed third party (fftw and nifti) libraries
 cd $rpg_path/thirdparty/
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 91776fbe..8feb519a 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -19,8 +19,9 @@ def change_permissions_recursive(path, mode):
     for file in [os.path.join(root, f) for f in files]:
             os.chmod(file, mode)
 
+
 change_permissions_recursive('rpg_cpp', 0o777)
-subprocess.run(['./rpg_cpp/compile.sh'], shell=True)
+subprocess.run(['./compile.sh'], shell=True, cwd='rpg_cpp')
 
 setup(
         name ='designer2',