If the immediate goal is to learn more about IM (minus compilation headaches and details) then get a current pre-built binary:
ftp://ftp.imagemagick.org/pub/ImageMagick/binaries
Plenty of command-line examples here:
http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage
Google on LNK1104:
Indicates that compiler can't find that library: either because
* the compiler/IDE is not configured to find it, or
* the file physically doesn't exist on your box.