emberrender cannot find flam3-palettes.xml if invoked from outside emberrender PATH

Version WIN-1.0.0.7.

If I put emberrender in my $PATH and attempt to invoke it from another directory (for example, to run a script that has it render all .flame files in another directory), it will look for the default flam3-palettes.xml palette file in whatever path I am in when I call it: it will not find it and read it from the path that emberrender is in. Example commands that lead to this, with the error:

PATH=C\Users\myUsername\AppData\Roaming\Fractorium;%PATH%

cd C:\tempRender

EmberRender.exe --in=test.flame --out=test.png

Error: Reading file .//flam3-palettes.xml failed: ios_base::failbit set: iostream stream error

Error parsing palette file flam3-palettes.xml. Reason:

EmberNs::PaletteList<float>::Add : Couldn't read palette file .//flam3-palettes.xml

Consequently I must either 1. always copy flam3-palettes.xml to whatever directory I call emberrender from, or 2. always work with emberrender from whatever directory it is installed in, or 3. pass it the full path to some palette file (I have tested the other two and they work; I haven't tested this last option).

All those solutions are cumbersome; it would be great if it searched for all resources it needs from whatever path it is installed in.

Possibly related issue (which I haven't tested in a while, so I don't know if it's still an issue) : even when I tell it (via a CLI switch) to use another palette file, it will complain that flam3-palettes.xml cannot be loaded (in the same scenario I describe here). I would think it shouldn't even attempt to load a palette file it won't use? Or is there something it needs from the default palette file even if I tell it to use a different palette file? If it would make more sense to file this possibly related issue as another issue, please say so and I will.

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