Right now its a simple .c file but to finish the project I need to make .h and .cpp files and would like to test run them on my mac but i dont know how, just how to compile them.

These files, stored as CPP files, compile through the Visual C++ compiler. Compile your files by downloading the free express compiler from Microsoft in order to run compilation commands from the ...

When compiling source code written in C++, which produces files that have a ".cpp" extension, you can simply change the file extension to ".bin" to make it executable.