Help needed to get my 7i76E + 7i85S + 7i73 on my mill going.

First of all, does that component even compile?

Secondly, your net statements in the code above will also need to mention the component pins. (I am not 100% sure what they will be called, probably gearblocker.0.gear-A and similar.

(Unless you change the component name, and you might want to)

And you might want "change up" and "change down" outputs too. Or an output to display the suggested gear.

Ahh, will give a try tomorrow to see if it compiles.

Sorry No-Go

bengt@debian:~/linuxcnc$ halcompile gearblocker.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
bengt@debian:~/linuxcnc$

Obviously I am doing something wrong but what?

tecno wrote: Obviously I am doing something wrong but what?

Much more likely to be my fault. I typed that component on a Windows PC in my lunch break.

The problem is that halcompile is not finding the ;; separator.

Specifically, it is looking for \n;;\n (newline, two semi colons, newline)

There is a ;; in the file, but it turns out to be wrapped in Windows-style CR / LF sequences. I have fixed this. The attached file should work well enough to find the next problem.

OK, I think it works.

1:st part with halcompile gearblokcer.comp no errors
2:nd part with halcompile --compile gearblocker.comp there is a list of errors See enclosed compile.txt



Is all OK or not?

No, there are typos and errors in the file.

Firstly, I have copy-and-paste errors, the cases should be 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, default

"case else" is wrong. it should be "default:" I have been coding too much Visual Basic recently, and that is the VB equivalent.

Also, I have got some of the internal names of the pins mixed up (should be gear_min_speed() )

I also spotted an off-by-one error in the gear numbering (the HAL pins always start at zero, so we need to number gears from zero)