diff --git a/src/ome_tiff_to_chunked_pyramid.cpp b/src/ome_tiff_to_chunked_pyramid.cpp
index fbc64bf..d16fd84 100644
--- a/src/ome_tiff_to_chunked_pyramid.cpp
+++ b/src/ome_tiff_to_chunked_pyramid.cpp
@@ -153,7 +153,8 @@ void OmeTiffToChunkedPyramid::WriteVivZattrFile(const std::string& tiff_file_nam
     combined_metadata["name"] = tiff_file_name;
     combined_metadata["metadata"] = {{"method", "mean"}};
     json final_formated_metadata;
-#ifdef _WIN32
+#if defined(__clang__) || defined(_MSC_VER)
+// more details here: https://github.com/nlohmann/json/issues/2311
     final_formated_metadata["multiscales"][0] = {combined_metadata};
 #else
     final_formated_metadata["multiscales"] = {combined_metadata};