You weren't the person asking about Mac clients. "Not An Imm" was. That's who I was giving advice to. If a random Mac user asked me for advice, I probably wouldn't tell them, "Well, you're going to want to build tintin++ by hand. Do you know how to edit make files? Do you know how to download gnu readline and build static libs for OSX?" I'd tell them, "Get a mac client that has pre-compiled binaries, or else get parallels or boot camp and a copy of windows, set it up, then use whatever windows client you want."

Now, it turns out that tintin++ has pre-compiled binaries for OSX, so that would fall under the umbrella of my suggestion. If it didn't, though, I certainly wouldn't recommend that a non-technical Mac user try to build it by hand.