Trying to solve "Core module not loaded" leads to "no such file: path/to/addons/ando_barrier_core.py"

[daishishi]

Hello,
I'm on Linux, Pop! OS 22.04 LTS (Kernel 6.16.3) and Blender 4.5.1 LTS. My hardware is a Ryzen 5 2400g and an AMD Radeon 6750xt.

I tried downloading the release file, and got "Core module not loaded". Following the troubleshooting I build from source, got the same error when putting the 'blender_addon' folder in the blender's scripts folder. I then put all the content from the "build" folder inside the "blender_addon" folder. This made the addon turn off, and trying to activating it gives the title message ("no such file: path/to/addons/ando_barrier_core.py").

Putting the "ando_barrier_core.py" in the parent folder of the addon (.../scripts/addons/ando_barrier_core.py) let me activate it, and silence the errors. However, when clicking in the "Real-Time Preview" -> "Initialize" I get the following error:

Python: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/user/.config/blender/4.5/scripts/addons/blender_addon/ui.py", line 33, in draw
    import ando_barrier_core as abc
  File "/home/user/.config/blender/4.5/scripts/addons/ando_barrier_core.py", line 14, in <module>
    _SPEC.loader.exec_module(_MODULE)
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 936, in exec_module
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 1073, in get_code
  File "<frozen importlib._bootstrap_external>", line 1130, in get_data
FileNotFoundError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/home/user/.config/blender/4.5/scripts/ando_barrier_core.py'

Thanks

[Slaymish]

Thanks for adding this issue! I'll be having a look into this today!

[Slaymish]

@daishishi v1.0.3 should now fallback to the python shim if core module is not found. The latest commit added a filechooser for you to select the core module manually if not found. We test and hopefully release tommrow