Visual C++ :: Why Cannot Open TIFF File

I am trying libtiff library (I downloaded the source codes as part of SDL2, but I test it separately). There is a test file named ascii_tag.c.

There is a line

Code:
tif = TIFFOpen(filename, "r");

and it breaks here when I run the program. Filename is:

Code:

static const char filename[] = "images/ascii_test.tiff";

and the file exists on disk, because the program just create it and closed the file handler. The error I got:

Debug assertion failed ... program name ... File: (and this is the strange thing!) f:ddvctoolscrt_bldself_x86crtsrcfstat64.c
line:64

Why it displays this path? I did not added this path to project so why it tries to call this file? I have installed VC in different location and running x86 32bit machine.

I already succeed to run test raw_decode.c where I used libtiff.lib and libjpeg.lib also here I used the libraries. I already succeed to open file there using

Code:
tif = TIFFOpen(srcfile,"r");

and srcfile = "./images/quad-tile.jpg.tiff".

Well I tried to use different path as "./images/ascii_test.tiff" but this also results in break. Where could be the problem that ascii_test.tiff cannot be opened?

Complete code:

Code:
/* $Id: ascii_tag.c,v 1.7 2008/04/15 13:32:12 dron Exp $ */
/* Copyright (c) 2004, Andrey Kiselev <dron@ak4719.spb.edu>
* GNU */
* TIFF Library
* Module to test ASCII tags read/write functions.
*/
#pragma once
#define _CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS
//#pragma warning( disable : 4355 )

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