You must have gimptool installed in order to have the full set of libraries and dependences needed to compile BIMP (names can differ depending on the distro).
For Debian-based (Ubuntu, Linux Mint, ...)
sudo apt-get install libgimp2.0-dev libgegl-dev
sudo pacman -S gimptool libgimp2.0-dev -> returns nothing. There are no gimp-dev+ packages...
sudo pacman -S gimptool libgimp2.0-dev -> returns nothing. There are no gimp-dev+ packages...
also see https://github.com/alessandrofrancesconi/gimp-plugin-bimp/issues/388