What is [in] a Hardware Support Package?

Hi!

I am currently trying to work with the Embedded Coder. My question is - what exactly is [in] a Hardware Support Package?

What is the difference between a .zip Archive file containing Support Package files and .mlpkginstall files. .zip files look like if you could see all the Contents of the Support Package, but I only found one example for a custom Arduino Uno target. The .mlpkginstall seem to be small files that contain minimal info for the supportPackageInstaller within Matlab.

Unfortunately I cannot Experiment with the supportPackageInstaller as most Support packages are not installable under Linux 64bit and further I am facing Network Problems/ Internet Connection Problems when logging in/ downloading from Mathworks, probably due to wrong Proxy settings.

Could you please explain what needs to be defined in a Hardware Support Package? And how does it work?

Thanks.

Answer 1

[Vincent Randal]

Word for word "most support packages are not installable" is my problem also regarding MATLAB hardware support packages for Linux 64bit. Only 8 of 72 packages are installable. I need Raspberry Pi and RTL-SDR hardware support packages, but unfortunately they are not installable on Ubuntu 14.04 or perhaps any version of Linux.