Homebrew-emacs-plus: Could not install with --with-xwidgets with version 27, and without it Emacs.app disappear

[MuhmdRaouf]

Describe the bug
Trying to install emacs ver 27 with the following options, but it always gave me this error and I don't know what to do, also Cocoa should be enabled by default.

Command used to install emacs-plus

$ brew install emacs-plus --HEAD --with-emacs-27-branch --with-dbus --with-jansson --with-modern-icon --without-spacemacs-icon --with-xwidgets --with-x11

Installation log

snowflake in ~ took 2m 8s
[I] ➜ brew install emacs-plus --HEAD --with-emacs-27-branch --with-dbus --with-jansson --with-modern-icon --without-spacemacs-icon --with-xwidgets --with-x11
Updating Homebrew...
Successfully rebased and updated refs/heads/master.
==> Auto-updated Homebrew!
Updated 1 tap (homebrew/core).
==> New Formulae
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==> Updated Formulae
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Error: --with-xwidgets is supported only on cocoa via xwidget webkit

Also when I installed it using the following but Emacs.app didn't exist and i have to use emacs from terminal now with the following command:

snowflake in ~ took 13s
[I] ➜ brew install emacs-plus --with-emacs-27-branch --with-jansson --with-modern-icon --with-x11 --without-spacemacs-icon --HEAD
==> Installing emacs-plus from d12frosted/emacs-plus
Warning: A newer Command Line Tools release is available.
Update them from Software Update in System Preferences or
https://developer.apple.com/download/more/.

==> Cloning https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs.git
Cloning into '/Users/snowflake/Library/Caches/Homebrew/emacs-plus--git'...
Updating files: 100% (4021/4021), done.
==> Checking out branch emacs-27
Already on 'emacs-27'
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/emacs-27'.
==> Downloading https://raw.githubusercontent.com/d12frosted/homebrew-emacs-plus/master/patches/fix-window-role.patch
######################################################################## 100.0%
==> Patching
==> Applying fix-window-role.patch
patching file src/nsterm.m
Hunk #1 succeeded at 8507 (offset -19 lines).
==> ImageMagick PKG_CONFIG_PATH:
/usr/local/opt/imagemagick/lib/pkgconfig
==> ./autogen.sh
==> ./configure --enable-locallisppath=/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp --infodir=/usr/local/Cellar/emacs-plus/HEAD-ac3da1d/share/info/emacs --prefix=/usr/local/Cellar/emacs-plus/HEAD-ac3da1d --with-xml2 --without-dbus --with-gnutls --wit
==> make
==> make install
==> Caveats
Emacs.app was installed to:
  /usr/local/opt/emacs-plus

To link the application to default Homebrew App location:
  ln -s /usr/local/opt/emacs-plus/Emacs.app /Applications

--natural-title-bar option was removed from this formula, in order to
  duplicate its effect add following line to your init.el file
  (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(ns-transparent-titlebar . t))
  (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(ns-appearance . dark))
or:
  (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(ns-transparent-titlebar . t))
  (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(ns-appearance . light))


To have launchd start d12frosted/emacs-plus/emacs-plus now and restart at login:
  brew services start d12frosted/emacs-plus/emacs-plus
Or, if you don't want/need a background service you can just run:
  emacs
==> Summary
🍺  /usr/local/Cellar/emacs-plus/HEAD-ac3da1d: 4,006 files, 105MB, built in 9 minutes 56 seconds

[d12frosted]

Hi @MuhmdRaouf

Well, the error says it all.

Error: --with-xwidgets is supported only on cocoa via xwidget webkit

Which means that you need to install with cocoa (e.g. don't use --with-x11). Maybe it's not that clear after all 🤔

Also when I installed it using the following but Emacs.app didn't exist and i have to use emacs from terminal now with the following command:

Not sure which command exactly you use. But as caveats sections says, if you want to install Emacs.app to /Applications folder, you need to link it using ln -s. Cask builds are not supported (see #41).

[MuhmdRaouf]

@d12frosted Ouch the message tells me what I need but I didn't realize it, sorry but I think it's not really clear, at least for me, But Thanks so much for your reply mate.

secondly the command I used
brew install emacs-plus --with-emacs-27-branch --with-jansson --with-modern-icon --with-x11 --without-spacemacs-icon --HEAD

and I did link it as the logs told me like the following
ln -s /usr/local/opt/emacs-plus/Emacs.app /Applications

yet the link was broken and I went into this path ln -s /usr/local/opt/emacs-plus
and didn't found the Emacs.app which is very strange to me.

PS. removing the flag --with-x11 solve the second issue and Emacs.app shows up.

will try to remove it also for the first issue and see how it goes.

[d12frosted]

Ouch the message tells me what I need but I didn't realize it, sorry but I think it's not really clear, at least for me,

Yeah... Thanks to you I also realized how unclear it might be.

Yeah, x11 means that you don't want cocoa application, which means, that you won't get Emacs.app. Maybe it also needs to be documented.

[MuhmdRaouf]

I can confirm that removing --with-x11 solves both issues for me, Thanks a lot @d12frosted 😄

[d12frosted]

No problem! Let me know if you have any other issues!