diff --git a/Changes.md b/Changes.md
index 773e52e0..73d039fd 100644
--- a/Changes.md
+++ b/Changes.md
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@
   pkillarjun. GitHub #357.
 * Updated `cmake_minimum_required` to a version range to quiet deprecation
   warnings on new CMake versions. Reported by gmou3. GitHub #359.
+* The script for generating man pages no longer uses `autodie`. This
+  eliminates the dependency on `IPC::System::Simple`. Reported by gmou3.
+  GitHub #359.
 
 ## 1.11.0 - 2024-08-21
 
diff --git a/dev-bin/make-man-pages.pl b/dev-bin/make-man-pages.pl
index d7c29f7b..199bee27 100755
--- a/dev-bin/make-man-pages.pl
+++ b/dev-bin/make-man-pages.pl
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
 
 use strict;
 use warnings;
-use autodie qw( :all );
 
 use FindBin qw( $Bin );
 
@@ -41,7 +40,7 @@ sub _make_man {
 
     my $input   = "$Bin/../doc/$name.md";
     my $man_dir = "$target/man/man$section";
-    mkpath($man_dir);
+    mkpath($man_dir) or die "Failed to create directory $man_dir: $!";
     my $output = "$man_dir/$name.$section";
 
     if ( $translator eq 'pandoc' ) {
@@ -54,7 +53,7 @@ sub _make_man {
             '-M', "section:$section",
             $input,
             '-o', $output,
-        );
+        ) == 0 or die "Failed to run pandoc: $!";
         _pandoc_postprocess($output);
     }
     elsif ( $translator eq 'lowdown' ) {
@@ -67,18 +66,20 @@ sub _make_man {
             '-M', "section:$section",
             $input,
             '-o', $output,
-        );
+        ) == 0 or die "Failed to run lowdown: $!";
     }
 }
 
 sub _make_lib_man_links {
     my $target = shift;
 
-    my $header = read_file("$Bin/../include/maxminddb.h");
+    my $header = read_file("$Bin/../include/maxminddb.h")
+        or die "Failed to read header file: $!";
     for my $proto ( $header =~ /^ *extern.+?(MMDB_\w+)\(/gsm ) {
-        open my $fh, '>', "$target/man/man3/$proto.3";
+        open my $fh, '>', "$target/man/man3/$proto.3"
+            or die "Failed to open file: $!";
         print {$fh} ".so man3/libmaxminddb.3\n";
-        close $fh;
+        close $fh or die "Failed to close file: $!";
     }
 }
 
@@ -92,8 +93,8 @@ sub _pandoc_postprocess {
             s/^\.IP\n\.nf/.IP "" 4\n.nf/gm;
             s/(Automatically generated by Pandoc)(.+)$/$1/m;
         },
-        $file
-    );
+        $file,
+    ) or die "Failed to edit file: $!";
 }
 
 main(shift);