Although this package is Windows-specific, there is no easy way in NPM to enable platform-specific dependencies. Instead, node-eventlog should handle non-Windows platforms without breaking.
Here is the error log when building on Raspberry Pi, which is an ARM64 Linux system:
> node-eventlog@1.0.2 install /home/gitlab-runner/builds/1yUs8yoP/0/Distributed-Compute-Protocol/dcp-native/artifacts/node/dcp-service/node_modules/node-eventlog
605> node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build --target_arch=x64 --target_platform=win32
606node-pre-gyp WARN Using request for node-pre-gyp https download
607 SOLINK_MODULE(target) Release/obj.target/node-eventlog.node
608g++: error: unrecognized command-line option ‘-m64’
609make[4]: *** [node-eventlog.target.mk:22: Release/obj.target/node-eventlog.node] Error 1
610gyp ERR! build error
611gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2
612gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:194:23)
613gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:400:28)
614gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:285:12)
615gyp ERR! System Linux 5.15.0-1015-raspi
616gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "build" "--fallback-to-build" "--target_arch=x64" "--target_platform=win32" "--module=/home/gitlab-runner/builds/1yUs8yoP/0/Distributed-Compute-Protocol/dcp-native/artifacts/node/dcp-service/node_modules/node-eventlog/lib/binding/napi-v2/node-eventlog.node" "--module_name=node-eventlog" "--module_path=/home/gitlab-runner/builds/1yUs8yoP/0/Distributed-Compute-Protocol/dcp-native/artifacts/node/dcp-service/node_modules/node-eventlog/lib/binding/napi-v2" "--napi_version=8" "--node_abi_napi=napi" "--napi_build_version=2" "--node_napi_label=napi-v2"
617gyp ERR! cwd /home/gitlab-runner/builds/1yUs8yoP/0/Distributed-Compute-Protocol/dcp-native/artifacts/node/dcp-service/node_modules/node-eventlog
618gyp ERR! node -v v14.20.1
619gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v5.1.0
620gyp ERR! not ok
621node-pre-gyp ERR! build error
622node-pre-gyp ERR! stack Error: Failed to execute '/usr/bin/node /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js build --fallback-to-build --target_arch=x64 --target_platform=win32 --module=/home/gitlab-runner/builds/1yUs8yoP/0/Distributed-Compute-Protocol/dcp-native/artifacts/node/dcp-service/node_modules/node-eventlog/lib/binding/napi-v2/node-eventlog.node --module_name=node-eventlog --module_path=/home/gitlab-runner/builds/1yUs8yoP/0/Distributed-Compute-Protocol/dcp-native/artifacts/node/dcp-service/node_modules/node-eventlog/lib/binding/napi-v2 --napi_version=8 --node_abi_napi=napi --napi_build_version=2 --node_napi_label=napi-v2' (1)
623node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/home/gitlab-runner/builds/1yUs8yoP/0/Distributed-Compute-Protocol/dcp-native/artifacts/node/dcp-service/node_modules/node-pre-gyp/lib/util/compile.js:83:29)
624node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:400:28)
625node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:1088:16)
626node-pre-gyp ERR! stack at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:296:5)
627node-pre-gyp ERR! System Linux 5.15.0-1015-raspi
628node-pre-gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/home/gitlab-runner/builds/1yUs8yoP/0/Distributed-Compute-Protocol/dcp-native/artifacts/node/dcp-service/node_modules/.bin/node-pre-gyp" "install" "--fallback-to-build" "--target_arch=x64" "--target_platform=win32"
629node-pre-gyp ERR! cwd /home/gitlab-runner/builds/1yUs8yoP/0/Distributed-Compute-Protocol/dcp-native/artifacts/node/dcp-service/node_modules/node-eventlog
630node-pre-gyp ERR! node -v v14.20.1
631node-pre-gyp ERR! node-pre-gyp -v v0.17.0
632node-pre-gyp ERR! not ok
633Failed to execute '/usr/bin/node /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js build --fallback-to-build --target_arch=x64 --target_platform=win32 --module=/home/gitlab-runner/builds/1yUs8yoP/0/Distributed-Compute-Protocol/dcp-native/artifacts/node/dcp-service/node_modules/node-eventlog/lib/binding/napi-v2/node-eventlog.node --module_name=node-eventlog --module_path=/home/gitlab-runner/builds/1yUs8yoP/0/Distributed-Compute-Protocol/dcp-native/artifacts/node/dcp-service/node_modules/node-eventlog/lib/binding/napi-v2 --napi_version=8 --node_abi_napi=napi --napi_build_version=2 --node_napi_label=napi-v2' (1)
634npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
635npm ERR! errno 1
636npm ERR! node-eventlog@1.0.2 install: `node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build --target_arch=x64 --target_platform=win32`
637npm ERR! Exit status 1
638npm ERR!
639npm ERR! Failed at the node-eventlog@1.0.2 install script.
640npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.
641npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
642npm ERR! /home/gitlab-runner/.npm/_logs/2022-09-29T17_28_34_217Z-debug.log
A fix is forthcoming that disables the build on non-Windows systems and removes Windows-specific platform/architecture node-pre-gyp options.
Although this package is Windows-specific, there is no easy way in NPM to enable platform-specific dependencies. Instead, node-eventlog should handle non-Windows platforms without breaking.
Here is the error log when building on Raspberry Pi, which is an ARM64 Linux system:
A fix is forthcoming that disables the build on non-Windows systems and removes Windows-specific platform/architecture node-pre-gyp options.