Adding Compare Plugin in Notepad++ 64-bit

Greetings!!

As you might be aware, Plugin-Manager is presently  not available in Notepad++ 64-bit version. As the name suggests, it allows to manage the plug-ins in Notepad++ such as Compare, Converter, MIME Tools etc. 

Good thing is that the absence of Plugin-Manager does not prevent us from adding plug-ins manually.

Recently, i felt the need and hence added the Compare plug-in manually in Notepad++ 64-bit

Below is what i did:

1. I downloaded the Compare plug-in from this location:

• https://github.com/pnedev/compare-plugin/releases/tag/v2.0.0

2. Name of this plug-in is ComparePlugin_v2.0.0_X64.zip

3. Unzipped the contents of this folder and found the below files inside:

• Folder called ComparePlugin
• And a file called ComparePlugin.dll

4. Copied these two inside the plugin folder of Notepad++ located here:

• C:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins

5. The plugins folder looked something like this:

6. Restart the Notepad++

7. Compare plug-in should now be available, as seen below:

8. Cheers!!