i just saw, that the cyclone folder under windows contains about 114 mb of externals ... is this intended?
For cyclone, I just used Kzrysztof's build system, since its quite
complex. On MinGW, its probably not getting strip'ed, that's my guess why they are large. gcc will link in the .dlls, making the files huge. strip will remove the unnecessary stuff.
i'm not familiar with kzrysztof's build system for windoze, but all the externals are about 765kb ... my linux libs hammer and sickle are about 800kb (compiled with icc), so my wild guess is, that the dlls contain the code for _all_ objects, but just export the specific loader function for the single external ...
maybe you have to tell strip, what's unnecessary ;-)
tim