General ⇒ texcount -auxdir location not working

[jl2014]

Hi,
This is my first time posting to a forum so please forgive me if I have made a mistake and posted this under the incorrect section or labelled it the incorrect topic.

I am currently using texMaker on OSX and compiling my files to a subfolder named build using pdflatex. I have texcount.pl script within my working directory and need to include the bibliography word count. For example, I run the following command:

./texcount.pl -1 -sum -inc -incbib -dir -auxdir=build -out=word.count main.tex

However, the -auxdir parameter returns an error:
ERROR: File main.bbl not found in path [ARRAY(0x7febc54432c8)].

I have specified the -dir command with -auxdir so that texcount searches for the .bbl file using [$workdir.$auxdir] in the perl script. I have attempted to try other possible inputs with no luck at all. I am not fluent in Perl at all (in fact, looking within the texcount.pl script was my first encounter). So I'm all out of ideas of how to go about fixing this issue. Could anyone offer some insight?