Delphi, installers and Windows 7

Question

As part of a general move to Windows 7 - where all applications should have an "installer experience", I need to create installers for all of our application suite. I have looked at InstallShield, but this seems extremely expensive for what it does. What install products could I look at?

The installers will need to be built unattended on our build machines, so there is a level of complexity above just being an installer builder.

Update:

I have looked at all of the suggestions and they look good. My plans involve pushing stuff up by SCCM (or something similar) to the end users. Would I need to have MSI support for that?

Answer 1

I think Inno Setup from Jordan Russell can do what you want. Oh, and it's free.

Answer 2

You might want to take a look at the Nullsoft Scriptable Install System (NSIS).

The compilation of NSIS installer scripts can be integrated in your build system.

(You can even cross-compile your Windows installer on Linux, BSD or Mac OS X.)

Find out more at http://nsis.sourceforge.net/.

With NSIS you can build .exe installers (think setup.exe).

In case you want to build MSI packages, take a look at the Windows Installer XML (WiX) toolset.

More on this here: http://wix.sourceforge.net/