[pcwalton]

The difficult parts change all the time and usually boil down to some sort of undocumented or poorly-documented dependency, especially if you're trying to enable the GPU backends. Every time someone I know tries to get it building it takes them a week to figure out how to do it.

[Lutger]

I used to do that when I started out with C/C++...15 years ago. Now my patience is running out after 10 minutes. Tooling has become so much better, but it seems not that much with some C/C++ projects. At least the build times are better, I remember big libs would could take hours to build.

[ho_schi]

Meson and ninja improved a lot in this area for C/C++.

[twic]

Does Skia have a continuous build somewhere? Is there any way to piggyback off the config for that?

I found this:

https://github.com/google/skia-buildbot

Assuming that the Skia maintainers keep that working, it might be easier to build the buildbot and use that to build Skia, than to build Skia directly!

[jupp0r]

Yes, it's built as part of Chrome IIRC.

[rstat1]

Took me less than an hour to figure out how to build it just reading the instructions they have on their website for building.

Skia really isn't that hard to use IMO even for GPU accelerated stuff.