diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 61760076f3cd..cf0f54f7484f 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -32,12 +32,6 @@ dependencies = [
  "libc",
 ]
 
-[[package]]
-name = "anyhow"
-version = "1.0.81"
-source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
-checksum = "0952808a6c2afd1aa8947271f3a60f1a6763c7b912d210184c5149b5cf147247"
-
 [[package]]
 name = "async-channel"
 version = "2.2.1"
@@ -807,7 +801,6 @@ dependencies = [
 name = "gtk4-macros"
 version = "0.9.0"
 dependencies = [
- "anyhow",
  "futures-channel",
  "futures-util",
  "gtk4",
diff --git a/gtk4-macros/Cargo.toml b/gtk4-macros/Cargo.toml
index e598829dc3bf..d0d572c7b4c0 100644
--- a/gtk4-macros/Cargo.toml
+++ b/gtk4-macros/Cargo.toml
@@ -21,7 +21,6 @@ xml_validation = ["quick-xml"]
 blueprint = []
 
 [dependencies]
-anyhow = "1.0"
 quick-xml = {version = "0.31", optional = true}
 proc-macro-crate = "3.0"
 proc-macro2 = "1.0"
diff --git a/gtk4-macros/src/blueprint.rs b/gtk4-macros/src/blueprint.rs
index 9386bc7aee4f..e0f981818bfa 100644
--- a/gtk4-macros/src/blueprint.rs
+++ b/gtk4-macros/src/blueprint.rs
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ use std::{
     process::{Command, Stdio},
 };
 
-use anyhow::{bail, Result};
+use proc_macro2::Span;
+use syn::{Error, Result};
 
 pub(crate) fn compile_blueprint(blueprint: &[u8]) -> Result<String> {
     let mut compiler = Command::new("blueprint-compiler")
@@ -24,7 +25,7 @@ pub(crate) fn compile_blueprint(blueprint: &[u8]) -> Result<String> {
     compiler.stdout.unwrap().read_to_string(&mut buf)?;
 
     if !buf.starts_with('<') {
-        bail!(buf);
+        return Error::new(Span::call_site(), buf);
     }
 
     Ok(buf)
diff --git a/gtk4-macros/src/lib.rs b/gtk4-macros/src/lib.rs
index 708fe008a982..9a7604ae0681 100644
--- a/gtk4-macros/src/lib.rs
+++ b/gtk4-macros/src/lib.rs
@@ -54,11 +54,7 @@ pub fn include_blueprint(input: TokenStream) -> TokenStream {
 
     let template = match std::fs::read_to_string(&path) {
         Ok(content) => blueprint::compile_blueprint(content.as_bytes()).unwrap(),
-        Err(err) => {
-            return Error::new(Span::call_site(), err)
-                .into_compile_error()
-                .into()
-        }
+        Err(err) => return err.into_compile_error().into(),
     };
 
     quote!({