I did the following:
1. Download the Box2D zip
2. In the Box2D folder, I used premake5 with the command line
Quotepremake5.exe vs2015
3. I opened the solution in VS 2015 and built it
4. I created an box2d folder with subdirectories "inlclude" and "lib"
5. I copied the built library into the lib folder
6. Copy pasted the Box2D folder containing the cpp and h files in the the include folder
7. In project properties, I located and added all the necessary directories and dependancies
The testing program works. Also, VS recognises the members of the Box2D header, which is also quite strange. I even set the build target to x64. I would highly appreciate some help with this, thank you in advance! 
