halcompile error

I can't get halcompile to work for a userpace comp. See error below:

joe@Shermill:~$ sudo halcompile --install --userspace testusr.comp
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/halcompile", line 1353, in <module>
main()
File "/usr/bin/halcompile", line 1322, in main
process(f, mode, outfile)
File "/usr/bin/halcompile", line 1192, in process
a, b = parse(filename)
File "/usr/bin/halcompile", line 417, in parse
a, b = f.split("\n;;\n", 1)
ValueError: need more than 1 value to unpack

I am on Debian Wheezy and linuxcnc 2.7.4

Well I found the problem. DOS style line endings.
I just had to do Save As in Gedit and choose Unix/Linux not windows Line endings.

It would be nice if Halcompile would just ignore the '/r' but............

Be nicer if Microsoft would just use the same endings as every one else

Could you tell me how you can solve the problem? I'm trying to compile a component but it's giving me the same error, I'm a beginner if you could explain me step by step I'd really appreciate it

Geany can fix those issues.

mcedit can do it, need to sudo apt install mc (mc is a great curses (text) based file manager, can also change ownership, permissions and much more)

dos2unix is a cli utility that can do it.

Couple of methods with sed source edoras.sdsu.edu/doc/sed-oneliners.html
TEXT CONVERSION AND SUBSTITUTION:

# IN UNIX ENVIRONMENT: convert DOS newlines (CR/LF) to Unix format
sed 's/.$//' # assumes that all lines end with CR/LF
sed 's/^M$//' # in bash/tcsh, press Ctrl-V then Ctrl-M
sed 's/\x0D$//' # gsed 3.02.80, but top script is easier

I got the file on Github, the encoder.c from the original linuxcnc, I'm editing it, then this error appeared, but when I get the original code and try to reconpile it gives the same error, I haven't used Windows at any point

I copied the file and pasted it into a text file named encoder.comp