Hello Minimal Terminal crashes with Wayland error

[bjnord]

I'm trying to get the Hello Minimal Terminal example from the manual to work. It crashes as follows:

     Running `target/debug/my_project`
thread 'main' panicked at 'Failed to initialize any backend! Wayland status: NoCompositorListening X11 status: XOpenDisplayFailed', /home/bjn/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/winit-0.27.5/src/platform_impl/linux/mod.rs:719:9
note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace

I only want to use terminal (like simple80x50), not anything graphical. Is there a way to get it to stop trying to use Wayland/X11? I tried the "Feature Flags" suggestions in the README (disable default features) to no avail.

Details about my system, which is an EC2 server accessed remotely with no graphical packages installed:

$ head -4 /etc/os-release 
NAME="Amazon Linux"
VERSION="2"
ID="amzn"
ID_LIKE="centos rhel fedora"

$ rustc --version
rustc 1.67.1 (d5a82bbd2 2023-02-07)

$ cat Cargo.toml 
[package]
name = "my_project"
version = "0.1.0"
edition = "2021"

# See more keys and their definitions at https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/reference/manifest.html

[dependencies]
bracket-lib = "0.8"

[rdrobinson3]

I ran into a similar line of Wayland related errors. I am running in a different environment (WSL2 under Windows). After some digging I installed sudo apt install libxkbcommon-dev libegl1 libwayland-dev and that resolved it.

My issues were not exactly the same but dropping this here as your post lead me down the path.