SFML Game cannot run on another computer

[bongobl]

Hi, I am new to the SFML forums so forgive me if I do not adequately present my issue clearly,

I wrote a simple game in SFML and it runs fine on my computer, but when I copy my game folder (includes game application called "Third.exe" and all required DLL's) to another computer, I get these error messages from the console whenever I run Third.exe:

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D:\test-1>third
Failed to load image "C:/Users/Alex/Documents/Visual Studio 2012/Projects/Third/
Third/Resources/gunsight.png". Reason : Unable to open file
Failed to load image "C:/Users/Alex/Documents/Visual Studio 2012/Projects/Third/
Third/Resources/MainHUD.png". Reason : Unable to open file
Failed to load image "C:/Users/Alex/Documents/Visual Studio 2012/Projects/Third/
Third/Resources/Ammo/Ammo_0.png". Reason : Unable to open file
Failed to load image "C:/Users/Alex/Documents/Visual Studio 2012/Projects/Third/
Third/Resources/Ammo/Ammo_1.png". Reason : Unable to open file
Failed to load image "C:/Users/Alex/Documents/Visual Studio 2012/Projects/Third/
Third/Resources/Ammo/Ammo_2.png". Reason : Unable to open file
Failed to load image "C:/Users/Alex/Documents/Visual Studio 2012/Projects/Third/
Third/Resources/Ammo/Ammo_3.png". Reason : Unable to open file
Failed to load image "C:/Users/Alex/Documents/Visual Studio 2012/Projects/Third/
Third/Resources/Ammo/Ammo_4.png". Reason : Unable to open file
Failed to load image "C:/Users/Alex/Documents/Visual Studio 2012/Projects/Third/
Third/Resources/Ammo/Ammo_5.png". Reason : Unable to open file
Failed to open sound file "C:/Users/Alex/Documents/Visual Studio 2012/Projects/T
hird/Third/Resources/Sounds/Sniper_sound.ogg" (System error : The system cannot
find the path specified.
)
Failed to load image "C:/Users/Alex/Documents/Visual Studio 2012/Projects/Third/
Third/Resources/Enemy/enemy.png". Reason : Unable to open file
Failed to load image "C:/Users/Alex/Documents/Visual Studio 2012/Projects/Third/
Third/Resources/Enemy/enemy_dead.png". Reason : Unable to open file
Random Number: 2
Failed to load image "C:/Users/Alex/Documents/Visual Studio 2012/Projects/Third/
Third/Resources/Background.png". Reason : Unable to open file
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It seems that the resource files I used such as .png's, .ogg's cannot be found. The problem is that I didn't think these files were needed at runtime.
So my question is, what must I do to properly run the game on another computer? Do I need to statically compile, or include the resource files with the game, etc?
Any help would be appreciated.

-Alex 

[Hapax]

You'll need to provide those resources since the program is trying to use the images.
Or, change the code to point to different images/resources.

[eXpl0it3r]

As Hapax said, the resources are needed at runtime, thus you need to ship them with your binary.
Also you should use relative paths for your resources. When running the executable it will look for them starting from the working directory. When starting from VS the working directory is the same as the one containing the project file.

[bongobl]

Thanks for the help, that fixed my problem!