tree-sitter: 'tree-sitter parse the-file' throws error following tutorial "The system cannot find the file specified (os error 2)"

I’m having trouble getting through the creating parsers tutorial.

tree-sitter generate works and creates the /src folder and binding.gyp

but trying to run tree-sitter parse the-file gives me The system cannot find the file specified (os error 2)

This is on windows with visual studio 2017 installed if that matters. I am able to get through this part of the tutorial on a macbook as expected.

I expect this is an error on my end, or some weird setup I have - but I can’t figure out any more info around the error to know where to start.