Issue loading simple texture

[ddlutz]

Hello everybody, I'm using SFML 2.3 on VS2013. I'm just getting started with this today but running into some issues with loading textures. I have a texture in my C: root folder and the image is called 'player.png'. I'm doing
"mTexture.loadFromFile("C:/player.png");" and it always returns false. I've tried various ways of C:\, C:\\, etc and no matter what it always returns false. Anybody have any ideas?

Thanks!

[Jesper Juhl]

Is it an 8bit PNG?  If so, those are not supported.

[ddlutz]

No it's not.

I was able to resolve the issue though somewhat, it works perfectly fine if I set VS to compile it is a release build instead of a debug without changing any code. I can't think of a reason for why the image fails to load only when it's set for debug.

[Jesper Juhl]

Could be that you are building your application in debug mode but still link to the release version of the SFML library. You must not mix debug/release since that causes all sort of random runtime errors, you must link to the debug version of SFML in that case.