Signed Int to Pin Output

Working on a 25 tool changer carousel and would like to take a signed int (iocontrol.0.tool-prep-number) and output it in binary to 5 pins. Is there an easy way to set this up in my HAL file or will I need to make a HAL component to do the conversion logic? This seems like it should be easy to do, but I cannot find any examples.

I can't see an easy/sensible way to do it with existing components.

Creating a component should be very easy. It would be nice if it took a "personality" input to define the number of bits to be output.

linuxcnc.org/docs/html/hal_comp.html

In fact, here is a component to do the job. I have attached a file, but have also left it in here to show how simple comp makes this sort of thing.

You should be able to compile and install it in a single step with

comp --install split_u32_bit.comp

(You might need a sudo)

If you get a message saying that comp can't be found, then you probably need to sudo apt-get install emc2-dev.

Thank you for the quick reply. That worked very well.

FYI for anyone else digging up this old thread, the package is now linuxcnc-dev instead of emc2-dev
Also! the comp command has been replaced by halcompile

And furthermore this component now exists as:

linuxcnc.org/docs/2.7/html/man/man9/bitslice.9.html

I did the same thing in ladder...