Pagination not working in custom loop WP_Query

Question

Please help with pagination

I have code that works fine (functions.php)

function projects_custom_number_of_posts( $query ) {
    $query->set( 'posts_per_page', 2 );
    return;
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'projects_custom_number_of_posts');

when I change to, pagination stops working

function projects_custom_number_of_posts( $query ) {
    $postsperpage = $query->get( 'posts_per_page' );
    $query->set( 'posts_per_page', $postsperpage );
    return;
}
add_action( 'pre_get_posts', 'projects_custom_number_of_posts');

It is necessary that the data is taken from the 'posts_per_page'

$paged = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
$args = array('product_cat' => $cat, 'post_type' => 'product',  'posts_per_page' => 2, 'paged' => $paged ); $query = new WP_Query( $args );

if ( $query->have_posts() ) : while ( $query->have_posts() ) : $query->the_post();

Answer 1

Having same problem. Ended up with the following codes

global $woocommerce_loop;
$woocommerce_loop['paged'] = (isset($woocommerce_loop['paged'])) ? $woocommerce_loop['paged'] : 1;
$woocommerce_loop['total'] = $custom_query->found_posts;
$woocommerce_loop['post_count'] = $custom_query->post_count;
$woocommerce_loop['per_page'] = $per_page;
$woocommerce_loop['total_pages'] = ceil($custom_query->found_posts/$per_page);
$woocommerce_loop['current_page'] = $args['paged'];