Just starting up with SDL.
I am using Visual Studio, project builds and links fine.
My problem is when I try to load an image i get null pointer back (presumably bad path string)

I tried to put img in different locations, tried absolute and relative paths, made sure no blah.png.png issues.

Am I missing an resource include (I am pretty certain its VS 'feature')?

Any good tutorial on the 'VS resource' and how to manage it.

could you perhaps post a piece of the code responsible for loading the image and where the error is thrown, and make sure if you're using PNGs that you have the libpng15-15.dll (thats what's my called) or other used filetypes libraries included next to your compiled executable file

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In visual studio you will need to set your working directory to where you have your images. You should also use relative paths. Right click on your project in the solution explorer and select properties and the working directory is under Configuration Properties -> Debugging -> Working Directory. By default the project runs in the project folder then under Debug or Release folders.

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Another common mistake is to forget to double the \ in path strings.

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so it seems that I had a problem only with loading only png files.

Console output: Couldn't load ./bitmaps/test2.png:Failed loading libpng15-15.dll

However I have that in my sdl_image directory. Does all dll's need to go to the build directory like SDL.dll or SDL_image.dll?
If so maybe there is some cleaner solution to this?

All the dlls need to be in your working directory.

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including libpng15-15.dll in working directory gave me another error complaining about another dlls.
So included all dlls from SDL_image lib directory.

However that is a lot of dlls and king of messy. Is that a correct solution? (I am just very pedantic :/ )