[Windows] Skia can't be built for free. Microsoft deprecated older VS versions.

[Aitor Gomila]

Hi,

I'm developing a project, Advanced Effects, which has a dependency on Skia. I can compile skia flawlessly in Linux using Clang. However, when using Windows and Visual Studio, I get thousands of errors coming from the skia code with supposed "missing includes".

Talking with people on the C++ community on Discord, it seems I was missing a requirement of the skia docs: "you need either VS 2017 or 2019". So I went to Microsoft's website to download them. However, older versions are now for "VS subscribers" only, and free customers can only download the latest version (VS 2026).

[Greg Daniel]

Skia should be able to be built with the newest VS (I've tried building Skia's test tooling locally with 2026 and it builds fine). My guess is that you haven't set up the include paths correctly for your project to point to Skia's include directory.

And yes our documentation is slightly out of date regarding the required VS versions.

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