[Gimp-user] Building GIMP 2.10 from source on OSX fails on “gimp-debug-tool-2.0”

[ausrius <forums gimpusers com>]

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:

Making all in app-tools
  CCLD     gimp-debug-tool-2.0
Undefined symbols for architecture x86_64:
  "_OBJC_CLASS_$_NSString", referenced from:
      objc-class-ref in libappwidgets.a(gimpcriticaldialog.o)
  "_OBJC_CLASS_$_NSWorkspace", referenced from:
      objc-class-ref in libappwidgets.a(gimpcriticaldialog.o)
  "_objc_autoreleasePoolPop", referenced from:
      _gimp_critical_dialog_response in libappwidgets.a(gimpcriticaldialog.o)
  "_objc_autoreleasePoolPush", referenced from:
      _gimp_critical_dialog_response in libappwidgets.a(gimpcriticaldialog.o)
  "_objc_msgSend", referenced from:
      _gimp_critical_dialog_response in libappwidgets.a(gimpcriticaldialog.o)
ld: symbol(s) not found for architecture x86_64
clang: error: linker command failed with exit code 1 (use -v to see invocation)
make[2]: *** [gimp-debug-tool-2.0] Error 1
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make: *** [all] Error 2

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.

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