Using VS Code and mcc standalone to develop with mikroe pic32 starter boards outside of any proprioty ide, other than using mcc standalone to generate the code and folder structure.
Make will compile using xc32 from microchip, which can be downloaded from https://www.microchip.com/en-us/tools-resources/develop/mplab-xc-compilers/xc32
the key to compilation will be the Makefiles in the root folder ans source folder.