I have downloaded and built the xerces-c 3.1 source on msys/mingw (gcc 4.4.0),
and the resulting DLL is 47MB. The only option I used was that given on the
build instruction page (LDFLAGS=-no-undefined).
I have also tried "--disable-thread --disable-network
--enable-transcoder-windows --disable-static LDFLAGS=-no-undefined", and that
reduced the DLL to a mere 36MB...
I assume I have not selected some options in the configure script, but as I
cannot find a --disable-bloated-dll option, I was hoping someone on the list
might have some suggestion what to try.