Invalid syntax issue

[84matte84]

Hi, when trying to compile circom as described in the README I got the following error:

./zkcompile battleship_pedersen.circom
error[P1000]: UnrecognizedToken { token: (90, Token(61, "input"), 95), expected: [""!="", ""%"", ""%="", ""&"", ""&&"", ""&="", ""("", "")"", """", """", ""="", ""="", ""+"", ""++"", ""+="", "","", ""-"", ""--"", ""-->"", ""-="", ""."", ""/"", ""/="", "":"", "";"", ""<"", ""<--"", ""<<"", ""<<="", ""<="", ""<=="", ""="", ""=="", ""==="", ""==>"", "">"", "">="", "">>"", "">>="", ""?"", ""["", ""\\"", ""\\="", ""]"", ""^"", ""^="", ""|"", ""|="", ""||"", ""}""] }
┌─ "battleship_pedersen.circom":4:20
│
4 │ signal private input carrierX;
│ ^^^^^ Invalid syntax

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