npm install on Windows causes errors

[3cooper]

We are using fuse-naive in an Electron application that will run on Windows and Mac. We have fuse-native in our package.json. When we run npm install we receive the error message below. Is there a suggested work around for this so that it installs on Mac and not on Windows? Would the os attribute in the package.json help in this case? I have seen the ability to use optionalDependencies, but that could hide issues if for some reason fuse-native failed to install on Mac.

D:\code\work\workspace\app\app-engine\node_modules\fuse-native>if not defined npm_config_node_gyp (node "D:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\npm-lifecycle\node-gyp-bin\\..\..\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild )  else (node "D:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\bin\node-gyp.js" rebuild )
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "D:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\gyp\gyp_main.py", line 50, in <module>
    sys.exit(gyp.script_main())
  File "D:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\gyp\pylib\gyp\__init__.py", line 554, in script_main
    return main(sys.argv[1:])
  File "D:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\gyp\pylib\gyp\__init__.py", line 547, in main
    return gyp_main(args)
  File "D:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\gyp\pylib\gyp\__init__.py", line 520, in gyp_main
    [generator, flat_list, targets, data] = Load(
  File "D:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\gyp\pylib\gyp\__init__.py", line 136, in Load
    result = gyp.input.Load(build_files, default_variables, includes[:],
  File "D:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\gyp\pylib\gyp\input.py", line 2778, in Load
    LoadTargetBuildFile(build_file, data, aux_data,
  File "D:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\gyp\pylib\gyp\input.py", line 416, in LoadTargetBuildFile
    ProcessVariablesAndConditionsInDict(
  File "D:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\gyp\pylib\gyp\input.py", line 1295, in ProcessVariablesAndConditionsInDict
    ProcessVariablesAndConditionsInList(value, phase, variables,
  File "D:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\gyp\pylib\gyp\input.py", line 1311, in ProcessVariablesAndConditionsInList
    ProcessVariablesAndConditionsInDict(item, phase, variables, build_file)
  File "D:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\gyp\pylib\gyp\input.py", line 1295, in ProcessVariablesAndConditionsInDict
    ProcessVariablesAndConditionsInList(value, phase, variables,
  File "D:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\gyp\pylib\gyp\input.py", line 1315, in ProcessVariablesAndConditionsInList
    expanded = ExpandVariables(item, phase, variables, build_file)
  File "D:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\gyp\pylib\gyp\input.py", line 914, in ExpandVariables
    sys.stderr.write(p_stderr)
TypeError: write() argument must be str, not bytes while trying to load binding.gyp
gyp ERR! configure error
gyp ERR! stack Error: `gyp` failed with exit code: 1
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onCpExit (D:\Program Files\nodejs\node_modules\npm\node_modules\node-gyp\lib\configure.js:351:16)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:210:5)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:272:12)
gyp ERR! System Windows_NT 10.0.19041
gyp ERR! command "D:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node.exe" "D:\\Program Files\\nodejs\\node_modules\\npm\\node_modules\\node-gyp\\bin\\node-gyp.js" "rebuild"
gyp ERR! cwd D:\code\work\workspace\app\app-engine\node_modules\fuse-native
gyp ERR! node -v v12.13.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v5.0.5
gyp ERR! not ok
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: fsevents@1.2.13 (node_modules\fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for fsevents@1.2.13: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"win32","arch":"x64"})

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! fuse-native@2.2.6 install: `node-gyp-build`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR!
npm ERR! Failed at the fuse-native@2.2.6 install script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     C:\Users\user\AppData\Roaming\npm-cache\_logs\2020-09-10T18_54_10_653Z-debug.log