Compiling HWRF

With HWRF from my understanding WRF-NMM had to be compiled first. It was compiled using gfortran. When trying to compile the hwrf utilities there were some errors regarding not being able to open the module netcdf. Is intel or PGI compilers needed to compile the hwrf-utilities? If yes does WRF-NMM need to be compiled with those same compilers? 
Aniya Tyson