ZimplZimpl is a language to translate the mathematical model of a problem into a linear or (mixed-) integer mathematical program expressed in .lp or .mps file format which can be read and (hopefully) solved by a LP or MIP solver. See http://www.zib.de/koch/zimpl/ for the home page of this tool and examples. On the above page, a command line tool is provided to read a model written in the Zimpl language and it creates a CPLEX lp file.
lp_solve is able to read this generated CPLEX lp file via the xli_CPLEX XLI driver, but that would require an extra step. |