GIMP Version: 2.10
Operating System: Mac OS
OS Version: High Sierra
GIMP Experience: Basic Level

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I was trying to build GIMP 2.10 on OSX for a week now with no success. Most of the problems were all the different dependencies and such. While it took time all of it was solvable but now I think I came to an dead end. I have gone to the stage where I could finally run "make" and after some time of building different things it errors out on "gimp-debug-tool-2.0". Here is the output log:



I have got similar errors when I was building Qt, OpenCv applications. The problem there was that libraries were missing and I solved it by providing paths to those libraries. But what could possibly be missing when building "gimp-debug-tool-2.0" which seems to be internal tool.

If somebody had any similar experience or has any clue/hint on how I could solve this problem and could point me to the right direction it would be very much appreciated.

Tanks in advance.

Loose brain waves that escaped while I read your post:
Same thing occurred to me while sifting through code from a Windows version, that "that ain't available on my system." Using Linux, and Gimp version 2.6-ish (too lazy to look it up). The locate-db tells me there is no such thing, other than in the source files belonging to 2.10, and in that Windows code I found.
Do you really need it? Sounds like a debug thing-a-ma-jig, adding debug info of sorts. Can the makefile be re-written to exclude it? I have not checked the official sources, could there be different versions for different systems?
Do you have to have a more recent version of Gimp installed first, where this "tool" was added? In that case, which version?
I wish programmers would stop writing documentation and leave that up to people who are closer to the user base...

Thank you for your reply. Yes, you are right, I do not really need the debug tool. I tried removing it from the make files and such but I went down the rabbit hole and had to pull the source code from git again as I messed to much with the files. However, I found out that I could run make with -k flag which keeps on building even if an error occurs. Luckily there were on other errors so after building and installing I could successfully run GIMP 2.10 on my MacBook

Attaching a screenshot as a proof that it actually runs on my MacBook.

If you were around back then: "Coolness achieved, Sirs!"

The program is part of a new feature. After a crash, a dialog is shown with some data, where and maybe why gimp crashed. But: If gimp crashes, you cannot start a new dialog. But you can start a new program. So the crashing dialog (the "critical dialog") is called from a seperate program and collects some crash info for the developers. Without that program, your gimp will crash after a crash. Hmm, nasty...

Hatti

_OBJC_CLASS_$_NSWorkspace is in the AppKit foundation.

Trying to build against homebrew and made it past gimp-debug-tool-2.0 with this configure line:

PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/local/opt/libffi/lib/pkgconfig \
./configure --prefix=/usr/local LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/opt/gettext/lib \
CPPFLAGS=-I/usr/local/opt/gettext/include LIBS='-framework Foundation -framework AppKit'

and failing in "common" with