I've heard several people say that it is easy, but then surely it ought to be trivial to set script the build so that it works reliable in a container!
No need to drag a gigabyte of docker stuff into this, just extract the zip file from github and type make into your terminal
congratulations, it now works.
If you're not a developer, maybe you'll have to type sudo apt install build-essential first. Congratulations, now you too, a non-developer, are running it locally.
Did that, got a compiler error within seconds within seconds. Looks like it might need a newer version of gcc than is in the distro on my laptop. Which is why people ask for Docker. If it really will work just with make with build-essential on a new enough distro image, a Dockerfile that documents that would be trivial, and does not at all stop people from just typing make if their setup is new enough.
I've heard several people say that it is easy, but then surely it ought to be trivial to set script the build so that it works reliable in a container!