BudgetX – Personal Finance & Budgeting App

Overview

BudgetX is a Qt-based personal finance management application that allows users to track:

• Income
• Expenses
• Stocks
• Crypto
• Savings Goals
• Budget allocations

It includes rich data visualizations using Qt Charts and supports features like recurring entries, theme switching, and PDF/Excel exports.

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🛠️ Build Instructions

📦 Required Qt 6 Packages

Before building, make sure these development packages are installed as QT charts is required:

sudo apt update
sudo apt install qt6-base-dev qt6-base-dev-tools qtcharts6-dev

⚠️ qtcharts6-dev is essential for charting support in BudgetX. If missing, the project will fail to compile.

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Project Structure

Your project folder should include:

• BudgetX.pro – Qt project file
• Source code:
  • *.cpp and *.h files
  • resources.qrc
• Optional: docs/ – Doxygen HTML documentation
• README.md – this file

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🧱 Building & Running

Terminal

qmake6 BudgetX.pro
make
./BudgetX

Qt Creator

Open a project using BudgetX.pro file and press build and run

VSCode

include all the local library paths to c_cpp_properties.json file then follow the same instructions for running on a terminal.

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📚 Documentation (Doxygen)

To generate code documentation:

doxygen dox.config

HTML docs will be located in:

docs/html/index.html