Mkbundle doesn't work for simple program - mono

Question

What am I missing here...?
I'm running some sanity tests after installing mono on an Ubuntu server (14.04.3 LTS), and hitting some problems when trying to mkbundle a simple test app that I got from the mono site.
The test app looks like this:
using System;
public class HelloWorld
{
static public void Main ()
{
Console.WriteLine ("Hello Mono World");
}
}
It compiles into hello.exe fine when I use mcs.
However, when I subsequently run mkbundle -o hello hello.exe --deps, this step fails. The resulting message reads:
OS is: Linux
Sources: 1 Auto-dependencies: True
embedding: /home/admin64/mono-test/hello.exe
embedding: /usr/lib/mono/4.5/mscorlib.dll
Compiling:
as -o temp.o temp.s
sh: 1: as: not found
ERROR: [Fail]
This is my first time working with mkbundle so I wouldn't be surprised if I missed some critical step. Does anyone have any ideas to this puzzler?
I'm running with the mono-complete package installed.

Answer 1

sh: 1: as: not found
mkbundle is trying to invoke the GNU assembler (as) on generated assembly code, after that it will invoke cc on generated C code and thus expect to find GCC installed and in your path. I assume you have not installed any other devel packages on that server, otherwise you would have those dependancies installed.
I believe just installing the gcc package will give you everything that it needs.
mkbundle env vars:
AS Assembler command. The default is "as".
CC C compiler command. The default is "cc" under Linux and "gcc" under
Windows.