Due to the planned migration to the CMake build system, I have started work on documenting the required steps to build FlightGear and its dependencies using NetBeans 7.0.
NetBeans is a multi-platform IDE, so this howto should be applicable to both, Linux and Windows users, and probably also Mac users.
You can find the article here: http://wiki.flightgear.org/Howto:_Build ... sing_CMake
This is currently work in progress, so if you find anything missing, feel free to either improve the article directly or raise any questions/issues you may encounter here. I tried to add a bunch of screen shots to make it more intuitive.
Finally, it took me about 20-30 minutes to set everything up in NetBeans, and I ended up with a working build environment pretty quickly. So CMake seems to work fairly well. On the other hand, I do not currently have access to computers with Windows or MacOS, so any help in adjusting and updating this article as required will obviously be appreciated.