ways to use local ghc without installing packages via cabal install --lib

I have a situation where I build some projects with stack (using VS Code and HLS) and build some projects with ghc installed via ghcup. For the latter I need to install the needed packages with cabal install --lib <package> which are some of the same packages specified in my stack.yaml. I've been playing with Windows, macOS, various versions of the resolver, various versions of GHC, cabal, and stack. At one point I had both the HLS and my local ghc builds working. Recently I'm not sure what changed but I found myself needing to run cabal install --lib on many packages. At that point HLS stopped working with the message that it could not determine the local GHC version. After poking around the web, it seems that similar problems were happening for other people when they were running both a stack project and compiling via ghc separately, and that cabal install --lib was a problem. So I'm wondering if there's an alternative way of using separate ghc builds. Alternatively I can try to move everything under stack, that is doable, but not as convenient for some things
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Dennis Raddle