CDKTF userdata path: examples does not work in aws launch template

[rpatidar]

Expected Behavior

cdk synth should work and should not fail.

Actual Behavior

i have tried various options placing the file at differrent folders it always return

Failure1

                       │ Error: Invalid function argument
                       │
                       │   on cdk.tf.json line 94, in resource.aws_launch_template.MyService-LTConstruct-test (MyService-LTConstruct-test):
                       │   94:         "user_data": "${filebase64(\"scripts/myscript.sh\")}",
                       │     ├────────────────
                       │     │ while calling filebase64(path)

Failue2:

                       │ Error: Invalid function argument
                       │
                       │   on cdk.tf.json line 94, in resource.aws_launch_template.ResumeParsingService-LTConstruct-test (ResumeParsingService-LTConstruct-test):
                       │   94:         "user_data": "${filebase64(\"$${path.module}/resumeparsingservice.sh\")}",
                       │     ├────────────────
                       │     │ while calling filebase64(path)
                       │
                       │ Invalid value for "path" parameter: no file exists at
                       │ "${path.module}/resumeparsingservice.sh"; this function works only with files
                       │ that are distributed as part of the configuration source code, so if this
                       │ file will be created by a resource in this configuration you must instead
                       │ obtain this result from an attribute of that resource.

Steps to Reproduce

create cloudformation following the terraform from https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/latest/docs/resources/launch_template ( typescript version)

the example have userData: Token.asString(Fn.filebase64("${path.module}/example.sh")), which didn't worked. i simplified and moved all the content to root directory and still it was not finding the scripts.

Versions

language : typescript

cdktf --version 0.20.9

node --version v20.16.0

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