Aren't we conflating compile complexities with runtime complexities here? There are plenty of open-source applications that offer pre-compiled binaries.
That difference isn't as black and white as you're making it out to be, sometimes it's just a design decision whether certain work is done at compile time or runtime. And both kinds of issues, runtime or compile-time, can be caused by the kinds of problems I'm talking about like unspecified dependencies.
This is why I wish github actually allowed automated compilation. That way we could all see exactly how binaries are compiled and don't need to setup a build environment for each open source project we want to build ourselves.
