Ape compile not working

[Him10Agr]

I am new to ape. I have created project in Ubuntu24.04. These are the steps i took and getting the error. I had tried with 0.8.* versions and 0.7.23 version as well but getting same error.

$ virtualenv  .venv
(.venv) $ pip install eth-ape==0.8.36
Collecting eth-ape==0.8.36
.................
(.venv) $ ape plugins install vyper
INFO:     Installing 'vyper' plugin ...
SUCCESS:  Plugin 'vyper' has been installed.
(.venv) $ mkdir  simplestorage
(.venv) $ cd simplestorage
(.venv)/simplestorage $ ape init
(.venv)/simplestorage $ ls -a
ape-config.yaml
contracts/
.gitignore
scripts/
tests/

contracts/simplestorage.vy:

# @version ^0.4.0

num: uint256

@external
def store(num: uint256):
    self.num = num

@external
def retrieve() -> uint256:
    return self.num

(.venv)/simplestorage $ ape compile
INFO:     Compiling using Vyper compiler '0.4.3'.
Input:
	contracts/simplestorage.vy
ERROR:    (VyperCompileError) FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/.venv/local'

it is looking for folder name as 'local' in venv directory.

Below is my project structure

$ tree -a -L 3
.
├── simplestorage
│   ├── ape-config.yaml
│   ├── contracts
│   │   └── simplestorage.vy
│   ├── .gitignore
│   ├── scripts
│   └── tests
└── .venv
    ├── bin
    │   ...
    ├── .gitignore
    ├── include
    │   └── site
    ├── lazyasd-py2.py
    ├── lazyasd-py3.py
    ├── lib
    │   └── python3.12
    ├── LICENSE
    ├── __pycache__
    │   ├── lazyasd-py2.cpython-312.pyc
    │   └── lazyasd-py3.cpython-312.pyc
    ├── pyvenv.cfg
    ├── README.rst
    ├── share
    │   └── man
    └── vyper_git_commithash.txt

[linear]

APE-2008 Ape compile not working

[antazoey]

which directory are you running ape compile? from simplestorage?