I am by no means an experienced or accomplished programmer. I did complete a CS minor as an undergrad (finished ~15 years ago), but went into a non-computer related field. Periodically I've written programs for simple tasks or my own entertainment. These days I would say I'm on the edge of functional literacy with C and unix. I last used ImageMagick on Linux in 2001 or 2002. It's a little different now. Apologies if some of these questions are annoyingly basic ... I think I just need some memory jogging.

Presently I'm working on a simple win32 program that needs to do some very basic image processing and display. The MagickWand API looks great. I'm working on a Windows 7 laptop with the MinGW 1.1 compiler.
From searching this forum, it appears that the binary distributions are incompatible with MinGW. I've downloaded ImageMagick-6.8.1-9, unpacked it, all the source is there. From what I can discern from the included docs, the expectation is that people are using Visual Studio (or maybe Borland).
Can someone point me in the right direction for getting ImageMagick built on Windows with MinGW? I don't see a makefile for mingw32-make, and I don't know what (if anything) I need to do with the configure scripts. Additional libraries I need to acquire? Anything special to link the ImageMagick stuff to my as-yet trivially simple 'hello world' win32 program?
I think if I can get a simple win32 program that includes this basic MagickWand routine to compile and run, I can take it from there.

Thank you.