With regards to this post :

https://www.allegro.cc/forums/thread/615390

I don't know why now but for some reason I thought I'd solved the issue.

I've recently used the project mentioned in the post as a template for another project and have come up with the same problem.

Here's my directory structure :

{"name":"609476","src":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/1\/1\/11b909a366c48e6565e096f63be09d60.png","w":861,"h":465,"tn":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/1\/1\/11b909a366c48e6565e096f63be09d60"}

{"name":"609477","src":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/9\/1\/91b05884ab04f5868c8b2d0827e19fc2.png","w":739,"h":179,"tn":"\/\/djungxnpq2nug.cloudfront.net\/image\/cache\/9\/1\/91b05884ab04f5868c8b2d0827e19fc2"}

Here's the code for loading the .cfg file.

Here's where the loading function is called from :

   /***************** End of Section *************************************/
   
   /**********************************************************************/
   /**************** Section : load configuration file. ******************/
   /**********************************************************************/
   
   config_manager.load_config_file("configuration/no_ap_3_configuration_file.cfg", log);
   
   if(config_manager.init_okay() != GREEN_FLAG)
   {
     /* add clear up code */
     return 0;
   }

Here's the log file :

MESSAGE : 0 : Log file opened.
MESSAGE : 1 : Initialised Allegro System Successfully.
MESSAGE : 2 : Initialised true type font addon successfully.
MESSAGE : 3 : End of InitialisationClass initialisation.
MESSAGE : 4 : Initialising Primes_Manager class.
MESSAGE : 5 : Initialised PhysFS successfully.
MESSAGE : 6 : Initialising Display.
MESSAGE : 7 : Unable to load font SIRCLIVE.ttf.
MESSAGE : 8 : Successfully initialised the Display.
MESSAGE : 9 : About to load configuration file (configuration/no_ap_3_configuration_file.cfg).
MESSAGE : 10 : Failed to load it.

I hope someone can help

I've tried both of those but the file still doesn't load.

He could use \\ for each backslash, it's not much of an issue. Allegro 4 had a put_backslash() function to append the appropriate folder separator for whatever platform was running, I don't know if A5 has an equivalent function.

I can load the config file you uploaded without problems. You must have a problem with the current working directory. You can check the cwd with this :

printf("Working directory is '%s'\n" , al_get_current_directory());

And you can set the cwd to the directory your exe is in by using this :

  ALLEGRO_PATH* exepath = al_get_standard_path(ALLEGRO_EXENAME_PATH);
  al_set_path_filename(exepath , NULL);
  al_change_directory(al_path_cstr(exepath , ALLEGRO_NATIVE_PATH_SEP));
  al_destroy_path(exepath);

//   ALLEGRO_CONFIG* config = al_load_config_file("test.cfg");
//   printf("%s config file\n" , config?"Loaded ":"Failed to load ");

Just replace test.cfg with your cfg file.

Make a copy of your config file named test.cfg and try this first. Run your executable from any directory and put the test.cfg file next to it.

If that doesn't work by itself, then there is something wrong with your version of allegro. If it does work, there is something wrong with the way you are calling al_load_config_file or your cwd is wrong.

Post the output of the code above.

I'm going to try tomasu's suggestion (hoping that someone will respond to this post so that I can keep y'all up to date).