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Example "aot-module" fails with [ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND]: Cannot find package 'node-api-dotnet' #461

@JesseCol

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@JesseCol

To repro, I'm on main branch commit 11c5a48.

I'm following the instructions at examples/aot-module/README.md:

cd examples\aot-module
dotnet pack ../..
dotnet publish
node example.js

And I get this error:

node:internal/modules/package_json_reader:268
  throw new ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND(packageName, fileURLToPath(base), null);
        ^

Error [ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND]: Cannot find package 'node-api-dotnet' imported from D:\node-api-dotnet\examples\aot-module\bin\aot-module.js
    at Object.getPackageJSONURL (node:internal/modules/package_json_reader:268:9)
    at packageResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/resolve:768:81)
    at moduleResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/resolve:854:18)
    at defaultResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/resolve:984:11)
    at ModuleLoader.defaultResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:685:12)
    at #cachedDefaultResolve (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:634:25)
    at ModuleLoader.resolve (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:617:38)
    at ModuleLoader.getModuleJobForImport (node:internal/modules/esm/loader:273:38)
    at ModuleJob._link (node:internal/modules/esm/module_job:135:49) {
  code: 'ERR_MODULE_NOT_FOUND'
}

Node.js v22.14.0

I found I could fix this by making this change in bin/aot-module.js:

// Removed this line:
//import dotnet from 'node-api-dotnet/net8.0'; 

// Added this line:
const dotnet = undefined;

And then it works fine:

Hello .NET AOT!

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