An hour does seem excessive. What kind of PC and OS are you using? The first time building a project it does have to build a whole bunch of standard ESP-IDF components, but that shouldn't take an hour. Do you have any other build environments that are comparable and are they much faster? On my feeb...

I am trying to build the default project provided in IDF on my windows laptop. Building the project is taking too long >1hr. Please help me with any possible solution to reduce this time or any configuration changes or tools to be installed.