I apologize for abandoning this thread for so long... you see I had some trouble compiling it on macOS the past month and someone just recently solved the issue for me - there were NO known macOS binaries on the internet for a few months so I couldn't test it locally on my computer
Thank you all for resolving this issue now! Sadly, I can not reproduce this solution on either macOS or Windows... but that is another matter...
@BuZz - so would it be possible to push a new symlink for this into the repo?