Good catch. We have verified that this is in fact a bug with the ways in which paths are formed in certain situations. We are looking into a solution to this issue and hope to have it resolved in a subsequent DAQmx/LabVIEW release. In the mean time there are two ways to work around this bug
1. Modify the build spec's "Destinations->Support Directory" to be a sub-directory of the
"Destinations->Destination Directory" location. "data" is the default sub-directory
when a build spec is created.
2. After building the app, hand edit the <application name>.ini file and change
the NI-DAQmx.ApplicationStorageFile key to be an absolute path to the .ini file or a relative
path to the .ini file without a ".\" before the path
