A while ago, I made a contribution on the wiki regarding the use of Netbeans with OpenFOAM®. It's a little bit out of date, but the last time I checked, the script on the wiki was still valid. Take a look at the article here:

Configure NetBeans with OpenFOAM®

Netbeans has been falling behind a little recently in terms of build quality, and I use Eclipse more often these days; but in terms of user-friendliness and customizability, I'd rate Netbeans a good deal higher. I'd be glad to answer questions if anyone has installation issues.

I tried the instructions on the wiki ... The error I am getting is
environment variable $WM_OPTIONS not set, exiting !

However when I did a echo $WM_OPTIONS in the terminal i got the following as the output ...
linuxGccDPOpt

replace wmake with NBmake

#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# check arguments and change to the directory in which to run wmake
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------

.......................................
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Recurse the application directories tree
#------------------------------------------------------------------------------
replace the contents between with the follow

curDir=`pwd`
makeOption=""
dir="_"
MakeDir=Make

# Check for Debug/Release
if [ $# = 3 ]
then
if [ $3 = "CONF=Debug" ]
then
export WM_COMPILE_OPTION=Debug
fi
if [ $3 = "CONF=Release" ]
then
export WM_COMPILE_OPTION=Opt
fi
fi

# Check if clean-up was requested... If so, call wclean
if [ $# = 4 ]
then
if [ $4 = "clean" ]
then
echo $0: Clean requested...
wclean
exit 0
fi
fi

use it as the make file in NetBeans

Hi,

I have the same problem, I'm trie to compile with Qt Creator, and the compiler output is:
$WM_OPTIONS is not set, exiting...

What kind of problem is?.

Best Regards.

Just add a new line in the "NBmake" script file to set up enviroment variables needed.
for example,

". $HOME/OpenFOAM®/OpenFOAM®-1.7.1/etc/bashrc"