Mario,

It seems you are missing tiff library. Yes, you can build Vaa3D first following the instruction (https://github.com/Vaa3D/Vaa3D_Wiki/wiki...). In this way, the tiff library will be built automatically. Or you can just build tiff library under  v3d_external/v3d_main/common_lib/src_packages/ folder. Following the instruction below, you should be able to build the tiff library appropriately (assume you are using Mac 64bit) .

cd v3d_external/v3d_main/common_lib/src_packages
tar zxvf tiff-4.0.2.tar.gz
cd ../
TIFFPATH='pwd'
cd build
../src_packages/tiff-4.0.2/configure -prefix=$TIFFPATH CFLAGS="-arch x86_64" CXXFLAGS="-arch x86_64" --disable-jpeg --disable-zlib --disable-pixarlog
make clean
make
make install

mv ../lib/libtiff.a ../lib/libv3dtiff.a
mv ../lib/libtiff.dylib ../lib/libv3dtiff.dylib
if [ ! -d ../lib_mac64 ]; then
mkdir ../lib_mac64
fi

cp ../lib/libv3dtiff.a ../lib_mac64/.
cp ../lib/libv3dtiff.dylib ../lib_mac64/.